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SAN FRANCISCO (CNN/Money) - A Rice University computer scientist and two of his students discovered a potentially serious security flaw in the desktop search tool recently distributed by Google, a newspaper report said Monday. The glitch, which could permit an attacker to secretly search the contents of a personal computer via the Internet, is what computer scientists call a composition flaw, the New York Times said. "When you put them together, out jumps a security flaw," Dan Wallach, an assistant professor of computer science at Rice in Houston, told the newspaper. Wallach and graduate students Seth Fogarty and Seth Nielson...

Some friends and I have operated a self defense survival and conservatism website called www.paxbaculum.com . This afternoon someone apparently took control of it with a worm called neverevernosanity webworm generation 13.

TOP STORIES Hostway, MND's Dedicated Server Company, Still CluelessMND Hacked By Brazilian Anti-War Group MURPHY'S LAW x10On Friday morning, at the very moment that I was traveling with my family and out-of-touch with this website, a "pathetic group of kids from a third world nation" hacked the MensNewsDaily home page and replaced it with a single page announcement written in Portugese. When I arrived at my destination late Friday night, I discovered much to my dismay that the high-speed Internet connection that I expected was not going available. It was not until midday Saturday that I was able to...

Men's News Daily, one of the most popular Web sites for commentary and news, has been hacked by a group calling itself "Rebellious Fingers Brazilian Defacement Crew." The conservative Web site has ben replaced by a Web page from the presumably Marxist hacker group. In recent years, many leading conservative Web sites, including towhnall.com, lewrockwell.com, and the no longer in business toogoodreports.com, have been hacked by leftwing groups. Mens News Daily editor-publisher Mike LaSalle has not responded to queries as to the duration or source of the attack, or when the site might return to service.

Unprotected PCs Fall To Hacker Bots In Just Four Minutes By Gregg Keizer, TechWeb.com The lifespan of a poorly protected PC connected to the Internet is a mere four minutes, research released Tuesday claimed. After that, it's owned by a hacker. In the two-week test, marketing-communications firm AvanteGarde deployed half a dozen systems in "honeypot" style, using default security settings. It then analyzed the machines' performance by tallying the attacks, counting the number of compromises, and timing how long it took an attack to successfully hijack a computer once it was connected to the Internet. The six machines were equipped...

This is a perfect example of how the Left works. Look at these results: Do you agree with the result of the 2004 Presidential Election?Yes 24% No 76%

Early this month, several Web sites began offering software promising ringtones and screensavers for certain cell phones. But those who downloaded the software found that it turned every icon on their cell phones' screens into a skull-and-crossbones and disabled their phones, so they could no longer send or receive text messages or access contact lists or calendars. Security experts named the malicious software "Skulls" and consider it an early warning of the damage hackers could do as they turn their malevolent talents to cell phones from computers. "Hackers are simply trying to put it out there that it can be...

Cell Phones Increasingly Attractive To Hackers Early this month, several Web sites began offering software promising ringtones and screensavers for certain cell phones. But those who downloaded the software found that it turned every icon on their cell phones' screens into a skull-and-crossbones and disabled their phones, so they could no longer send or receive text messages or access contact lists or calendars. Security experts named the malicious software "Skulls" and consider it an early warning of the damage hackers could do as they turn their malevolent talents to cell phones from computers. "Hackers are simply trying to put it...

Hackers co-opted several popular Web sites including comedycentral.com over the weekend, using them to infect thousands of computers with a virus that can be used to steal passwords, bank accounts and other personal information. Displaying an increasingly sophisticated approach to online theft, the hackers gained control of a German online advertising services firm and served up thousands of Internet ads designed to send visitors to one of several Web sites where the hackers had installed the virus. Hackers also can use the virus to plant programs on victims' computers that send out spam, flood monitors with pop-up advertising or...

Entropy Squared & conniewFree Dominion November 21, 2004 Under attack President Bush is coming to Canada for a visit on November 30 and December 1. The MSM in Canada is going to paint it as a disaster of some type and many assorted Canadian leftists are planning on protesting his visit. Free Dominion is setting up welcoming demonstrations for President Bush to show him - and all Americans - that all Canadians are not Liberal weenies. Free Dominion has contacts in the U.S. Embassy, who know and trust us, and they are going to feed us information as to where...

Gmail accounts 'wide open to exploit' - report By John Leyden Published Friday 29th October 2004 16:50 GMT Google's high profile webmail service, Gmail, is vulnerable to a security exploit that might allow hackers full access to a user's email account simply by knowing the user name, according to reports.The security flaw allows full access to users' accounts, with no need of a password, Israeli news site Nana says . Using a hex-encoded XSS link, the victim's cookie file can be stolen by a hacker, who can later use it to identify himself to Gmail as the original owner of...

The state of California has warned residents that their personal data may have been stolen from computers at the University of California, Berkeley, after a database used by researchers there was compromised by hackers. The California Department of Social Services (CDSS) issued a media advisory on Tuesday, saying that the agency was working with the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation to investigate an intrusion on a computer at Berkeley that contained personal information on around 1.4 million recipients and providers of In Home Supportive Services (IHSS), which provides home-care services to low-income elderly and disabled Californians. Names, addresses, telephone and...

SAN FRANCISCO - A computer hacker accessed names and Social Security numbers of about 1.4 million Californians after breaking into a University of California, Berkeley, computer system in perhaps the worst attack of its kind ever suffered by the school, officials said Tuesday.

North Korea has trained as many as 600 computer hackers to be capable of launching a cyber-war on South Korea, the US or Japan, South Korea’s defence ministry said on Monday. Coming amid intelligence reports that Pyongyang might be preparing to test a ballistic missile, the report will exacerbate jitters over the extent of the communist state’s destructive ability. “North Korea’s intelligence warfare capability is estimated to have reached the level of advanced countries,” the ministry said in a report to the National Assembly’s national defence committee. North Korea’s military command has 500 to 600 hacking staff who have undertaken...

SEOUL, Oct 4 (AFP) - North Korea has trained more than 500 computer hackers capable of launching cyber warfare against the United States, South Korea's defense ministry said Monday. In a report to the National Assembly's National Defense Committee, the ministry said that hackers from the impoverished Stalinist state were among the best in the world. "North Korea's intelligence warfare capability is estimated to have reached the level of advanced countries," the report said, according to Yonhap news agency. The military hackers had been put through a five-year university course training them to penetrate the computer systems of South...

SNIP At some point in their wardriving experience, Timmins and Botbyl came upon a Lowe's hardware store with an open wireless network. Timmins later admitted to Kevin Poulsen of Security Focus that what he did next was technically illegal: he used the Lowe's network to check his e-mail. When he realized it was Lowe's private network, however, he says, he disconnected. That in itself might have been the end of the story. However, Lowe's became aware of the breach and contacted the FBI, who, after its investigation, charged Timmins with one count of unauthorized computer access. And that by itself...

Hackers attack Al Qaeda-linked websites Hackers have attacked a website of an Al Qaeda-linked group, that beheaded two US hostages in Iraq, re-routing visitors to a page showing a penguin toting a machine gun and warning against hosting such sites. The site of the Tawhid and Jihad Group of Al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, set up on a site providing free web hosting, last week carried a tape of British hostage Kenneth Bigley appealing for his life as well as videos of the decapitation of the two US hostages. "Host them and your next!" was the message left on...

We've been telling you about protestor plans to disrupt the Republican Convention in New York City. Tie up traffic, nobody would notice. But tie up the internet and you've got problems. Get this, political dissent has changed a lot since the last Republican Convention. This year hackers are threatening to shut down GOP websites. They've become a valuable tool for candidates. For example, 50 thousand people an hour were visiting John Kerry's site after his acceptance speech. The same is expected for Bush, but protestors are lurking in cyber space. And real terrorists may have found another soft spot within...

Beware That WinAmp Skin By Ryan Naraine August 26, 2004 The popular skinning feature in Nullsoft's WinAmp media player has left the door wide open for malicious attackers to hijack PCs. Security researchers at K-Otik discovered the vulnerability and released details of a "Skinhead" zero-day exploit that is already spreading in the wild. The exploit, which targets WinAmp versions 3.x and 5.x, is being used to forcefully install spyware and Trojans on infected systems. Secunia has tagged the flaw as "extremely critical," its highest rating. WinAmp skins have a huge following because they allow users to adopt colorful, customizable...

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