By Peter Piazza
Rom viruses to spyware to Trojan horses, there’s an abundance of ways for your computer to be rendered unusable or for its data to be corrupted. If you’re lucky enough to have the help of IT professionals, you might be able to get things back to normal without too much trouble. But if you’re on your own, you might wish that you could somehow turn back the clock to the days when the computer was working properly.
By Peter Piazza
“bot” is a small software program that is often used on Internet Relay Chat (IRC) channels to gather information or interact with human users. Some bots on IRC are used by hackers to control “botnets,” or a series of tens of thousands of compromised computers, according to Know Your Enemy: Tracking Botnets, a paper from The Honeynet Project & Research Alliance.
By Peter Piazza
If you want to try some of the recommended hacks from Windows XP Hacks: Tips & Tools for Optimizing Your OS, however, you’ll have to put aside any compunction you might have about tweaking the registry. You’ll also have to change your idea about what a “hack” is; in its nonpejorative form, as meant here, it simply refers to an innovative solution (and perhaps one that was never considered by the original creators) to a programming problem.
By Peter Piazza
Not all Web sites are designed to be protected against changes being made by visitors. In fact, one type of Web site is set up specifically to allow visitors to add or edit its content.
By Peter Piazza
The Cyber Incident Detection Data Analysis Center (CIDDAC), a service to share real-time cyberthreat information, recently launched its National Operations Center at the University of Pennsylvania.
By Peter Piazza
The problem with blogs, the threat posed by bots, and a system backup tool.
By Peter Piazza
Defacements of Web sites hit a new peak in December 2004, according to statistics compiled by zone-h.org, which has a database of what it calls “Web server cybercrimes.”
By Peter Piazza
If your organization has a wireless network, it must be regularly assessed to ensure that it remains secure from malicious outsiders.
By Peter Piazza
Hard-core technophiles might see those same robots, which come equipped with software brains and are fully mobile, as tools to help them learn about genomes by programming them to “mate” (that is, combine their software, including some chance of mutations, to create “robot progeny”). This kind of technique—or hack, as it’s commonly known—is one example of the type of high-tech content that can be found on hack a day, a blog dedicated to technotinkerers.