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Hackers and cybercrime prevention

• October 03, 2004 03 Oct'04

  Training for CISSP Certification: SearchSecurity.com's Security School

  Study guides for each of the ten domains of the CBK for those preparing to take the CISSP exam or expanding their knowledge of security concepts and practices.

• September 26, 2004 26 Sep'04

  Authorize.Net says it has 'learned' from attack

  The credit card processing service was unprepared for the kind of attack it suffered last week, but it will use the experience to improve security.

• September 19, 2004 19 Sep'04

  Hackers costing enterprises billions

  Symantec's semi-annual Internet Threat Report finds hackers continued adding billions to the cost of doing business on the Internet.

• July 27, 2004 27 Jul'04

  New attacks and vulnerability trends highlighted at Black Hat

  Presentations beginning today will analyze vulnerabilities, zero-day code, phishing and secure wireless deployment, among many other topics.

• July 25, 2004 25 Jul'04

  Learning about Security Threats: Profiling

  A look at what it means to be a hacker.

• July 18, 2004 18 Jul'04

  Debian fixes multiple flaws

  Denial-of-service, buffer overflow and format string vulnerabilities in Debian GNU/Linux that an attacker could use to remotely execute malicious code has been fixed.

• June 21, 2004 21 Jun'04

  Users at risk after web host attack

  Users have been warned to brace themselves for attacks on sites which provide patch downloads and web hosting services.

• May 23, 2004 23 May'04

  Hacking for Dummies: Chapter 10 -- Wireless LANs

  Read Chapter 10, Wireless LANs, from the book "Hacking for Dummies" written by Kevin Beaver.

• May 13, 2004 13 May'04

  Hacking For Dummies: Chapter 7 -- Passwords

  In his latest book, "Hacking For Dummies," Kevin Beaver takes the reader into the mindset of a hacker in order to help admins fend off vulnerabilities and attacks.

• April 11, 2004 11 Apr'04

  IBM and Cisco battle remote attack vulnerabilities

• January 04, 2004 04 Jan'04

  Security legislation: Where's the breach?

  Security legislation isn't all that it's cracked up to be. Find out how California's SB 1386 is letting some breaches fall through the cracks.