Hackers are better organized to attack critical government and business IT systems than the government and business are structured to defend their cyber assets, the Department of Homeland Security’s top…
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“The FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) is seeking a senior security consultant for a permanent position.” This is probably the next job offer that will appear on the FBI job site (fbijobs.gov) as they got defaced yesterday.
Earlier this year, a sullen, 28-year-old contractor in California was charged in federal court with sabotaging the computerized controls on oil-rig sitting off the coast, allegedly out of spite for…
Here’s a fun story. Police in Australia thought they were being mighty clever when they took over an “underground hacking forum.” (The forum is r00t-y0u.org, though it seems to be down right now.) One of the hackers on the forum then retaliated by breaking into police computers using a simple SQL injection. Security fail.
Script kiddy asked me politely to hack myself and upload a shell for him. That’s a challenge I never tough about.