| Sunny Shores for Foggy Business |
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05/20/2006
The exuberant and unspoilt nature of the British Virgin Islands offers more than just a vacation.
The flexibility of the legislation, which allows a company incorporated in the British Virgin Islands to conduct business worldwide with the absolute... |
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| The biggest hacking incident in the web-hosting history UPDATE TUE-23rd |
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05/18/2006
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We received a mail from stokia.com fellows with an interesting analysis on the incident:
"The hack seems to have been done through a asp script that is automatically installed on all hos... |
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| Ransom-A - a new Trojan Horse threatening our PC |
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05/04/2006
A new Trojan horse has been introduced in the web endangering Windows OS: it’s Ransom-A and it behaves like a robber that takes data hostages threatening to cancel them one-by-one every 30 minutes, unless a $10.99 ransom is fulfilled– as Sophos exper... |
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| Muslim (?) Cyberterrorists (?) large (?) denial of service attack hits hard several Americans political blogs. |
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04/29/2006
As reported by Michelle Malkin's web-blog ( http://michellemalkin.com/archives/005092.htm ), a denial of service attack has downed several american political blogs, most of them hosted by Hosting Matters company.
The list (partial?) of the attacke... |
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| Serious (and embarrassing) incident at the Slovak National Security Office |
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04/26/2006
In a security incident with a Slovak National Security
Office server, a great amount of data has been downloaded by crackers, as Slovak community website (www.blackhole.sk) informed on April 25th.
Crackers got access to and downloaded "20 giga... |
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| The vicious circle of fear and terrorism |
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03/31/2006
If we take a look at the world as it appears today, we perceive that it has run through very deep changes. Some say that the root of all changes is Fear: the Fear of an enemy who does not keep the rules and has nothing to loose. Some identify this ... |
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| Web saboteurs wanted? Russian Duma praises hacker crew for defacing "Anti-russian" web sites |
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03/24/2006
A group of Russian hackers were congratulated in the State Duma this week for unleashing a crippling patriotic cyber blow on an Israeli Web site that published “anti-Russian” ideas in a recent article.
The congratulatory statement is believed t... |
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| Rights and Bytes |
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03/23/2006
When i'm buying a cd, what am i buying, really? Plastic, paper, manwork (to build the parts, make the music, play the music, burn the music, pack, ship, stock), plus the right to hear it a thousand times or more, under certain conditions. And when i... |
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| Security is a state of mind. But it doesn't exist. |
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03/14/2006
The King is naked! Ok nobody can hide it now. You can analyze your risks, you can identify threats, you can evaluate impacts, you can identify vulnerabilities, you can reduce risks, you can install any kind of securityware to feel more secure. But ... |
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| Postcards from Iraq |
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03/13/2006
Today on Zone-h, the extraordinary attestation of the father of an American soldier who is on mission in Iraq. the document is reliable and got to our editorial unit, after being forwarded from "PC to PC".
What follows, represents a living matter a... |
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| Phishing scammers and data thieves prey on UK companies |
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03/16/2006
Despite an active campaign to promote data security in the UK, British businesses continuously fail to safeguard the data they store, leaving them ever vulnerable to phishing scams and identity thieves, a new report published on Thursday said.
Acc... |
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| Terrorist Threat Potential Facing Japan |
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03/15/2006
The threat of terrorism would be sneaking behind Japan.
This would be the conclusion drawn in the essay published today on Zone-h.org, where Fabio Ghioni depicts several focus elements that awaken the awareness of a coming terrorist attack in Japa... |
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| Googling for G-Men |
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03/13/2006
How easy is it to discover the names and addresses of Central Intelligence Agency operatives and the whereabouts of the many shell companies they work for?
Apparently, dead simple.
In an article entitled “Internet Blows CIA Cover”, The Chica... |
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| MEETING WITH K4U co-founder of Zone-H.org at CeBIT Hannover, Germany |
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03/10/2006
Zone-h will be a the show Sun-Mon-Tue.
K4U will sure have "ein Bier" at the Muenchner Halle. You can reach him on his mobile phone: 00372 5 222229. |
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| Hacking is legal (and digital property does not exist anymore) |
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03/08/2006
Discussion have raised during the last weeks on what has to be considered hacking and what not. A court in Barcelona (Spain) states that some activities normally considered by the security community as “illegal” is in fact “tolerated” and a guy has ... |
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