Hacking and cyber-espionage groups around the world are attempting to exploit recently disclosed zero-day vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange Server, before the window of opportunity closes as ...

A warning that hackers are exploiting vulnerable email servers doesn't qualify as an unusual event in general. But when that warning comes from the National Security Agency, and the hackers are some ...

SQL Injection is a fairly new method of hacking your database. Learn how it’s done—and how to protect yourself. MOST NETWORK ADMINISTRATORS charged with keeping the network infrastructure secure tend ...

On December 6, 2011, a hacker using the handle “sup_g” private-messaged Hector Xavier Monsegur, otherwise known as “Sabu,” on Anonymous’s IRC server to tell him of a server he had gained access to.

What do you do when you enter a hacking competition only to discover that the target server is running a cut-down operating system running with almost all services switched off so that it does not ...

The Shadowserver Foundation, a non-profit organization that helps identify and fix security threats, has been compromised by a backdoor and is communicating with a rogue domain called ...

Phew! What is that awful smell? Some experts claim there is a stench coming from the 58-page DOJ brief that explains how the FBI found the real IP address of the online drug marketplace Silk Road and ...

In the past few months, a small community has been budding around the Western Digital MyBook II, a popular paperback-sized external hard drive. It quickly was discovered that the Ethernet-capable ...

A court in Houston has authorized an FBI operation to “copy and remove” backdoors from hundreds of Microsoft Exchange email servers in the United States, months after hackers used four previously ...