The US Department of Justice announced today that a California man has pled guilty to trafficking counterfeit computer chips to the US military. Neil Fehaly agreed to cooperate with the government as part of his plea deal, and he faces up to five years in prison for passing off bogus versions of chips from Intel, VIA, STMicro, Analog Devices, and other chipmakers to the Navy. These counterfeits, some of which were outright fakes from China, and others of which were "remarked" versions of cheap chips that had been made to look like more expensive parts, have gone into countless critical military systems since the scam started, possibly endangering the lives of military personnel and civilians.

UK home secretary Alan Johnson has decided that Gary McKinnon should be sent to the US to face trial on hacking charges.

As we prepare to stuff our faces with a bountiful Thanksgiving feast, we turn our Thanksgiving spirit to the gobs of free software we love to say thank you to the developers, and to give our computers a feast of their own.

The 21-year-old hacker who wrote the first iPhone worm has landed a job developing software for the phones.

Microsoft released data collected from an FTP-server honeypot, showing that attempts to guess passwords continue to focus on the low-hanging fruit: passwords with an average length of eight characters, with "password" and "123456" being the most common.

Ubisoft said that the website of its popular video game Splinter Cell had been hacked on Thursday. However circumstantial evidence suggests the hack is more likely to be a publicity stunt than a genuine cyber assault.

A malicious spam campaign that attempts to harvest online game passwords under the guise of messages containing smutty photos is doing the rounds.

Customers of an UK-based web host called Daily Internet Services, had their websites defaced by hackers, who replaced their index pages with an image featuring Tux, the Linux penguin mascot. The company has restored the affected pages from back-ups and is currently investigating the attack.

Britain faces a new threat from the sharp increase in cyber-crime with sophisticated hackers leaving the government far behind in its attempts to catch them, according to the world's leading expert in online security.

Hackers could evade most existing antivirus protection by hiding malicious code within ordinary text, according to security researchers.

Windows 7 has a had a very successful launch and has sold more copies than OSX during the second and third weeks in November. Overall sales of Windows 7 are projected to oversell both OSX and Windows Vista next year.

В предыдущей статье было продемонстрировано, как тривиальная инъекция может привести к гибели сервера, а точнее, к получению контроля над ним злоумышленником. Тогда мне в значительной степени повезло, так как доступ к БД через скуль открывал завесу к паролям от FTP