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ZDNet Dictionary Definition
- Cracker
- (1) A person who breaks into a computer system without authorization, whose purpose is to do damage (destroy files, steal credit card numbers, plant viruses, etc.). Because a cracker...
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- A hacker by any other name would code as sweet
- A hacker by any other name would code as sweetGreat MenTalk about [url=http://www.jmusheneaux.com/39cc.htm#1968]hackers.[/url]Geesh! ;)Hack On!where'd the line go?there once was a line between hackers and crackers... hackers are like crackers, but they do it legal, legit, and for good purposes... crackers break in, break code, disrupt, and are the negative...
- Tags: Hacking, hacker, cracker
- Discussion threads 2006-09-14
- Slovak National Security Office hacked hard
- Zone-H.org is reporting that the Slovak National Security Office was hacked hard by a group of crackers interested in demonstrating that the Slovak "NSO doesn't know the meaning of the word Security". The crackers reportedly got access to "20 gigabytes of emails, internal documents, directives etc" along with administrative...
- Tags: Slovak, cracker, Slovak National Security Office, Slovak NSO
- Blog posts 2006-04-27
- Police question man over Slammer worm
- Police question man over Slammer wormGood news!Arrest the cyber-hooligans. Make 'em squirm knowing the harsh punishment they'll receive..The Old School gives way to the New School.Old School: "Clubs" of teenage/early 20's crackers.New School: 'developers' working for Eastern European organized crime.On another article a day or two ago, someone asked...
- Tags: Viruses and worms, SECURITY, New School, cracker, Old School, SQL Slammer
- Discussion threads 2004-12-01
- Microsoft demonstrates supercomputing Windows
- Microsoft demonstrates supercomputing WindowsWow a new name"The company demonstrated the software at a supercomputing conference in Pittsburgh and also unveiled a new name for the product: Windows Server 2003 Compute Cluster Edition."Great news from MS for all their super-computing users;-)Microsoft on the Cutting Edge Once AgainHow did Microsoft ever come...
- Tags: Linux, Operating systems, Bill G., SC2004, Microsoft Corp., supercomputing, cracker, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2004-11-08
- IE security patch nixes some apps
- IE security patch nixes some apps&itch..&itch...&itchMS can't win.1. Microsoft needs to get their OS and products to be the end all to be all secure solutions.2. Microsoft needs to allow some insecure items to work because fixing the security issues will break other unsecure apps.What a joke.yea thats too badoh...
- Tags: Web browsers, Cyberthreats, ActiveScripting, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Web browser, security, cracker, IE Security Patch, Web
- Discussion threads 2004-02-04
- Al-Jazeera hacker sentenced
- Al-Jazeera hacker sentencedNot encouraging patriotism - mixed signals to citizensWhat is wrong with our judicial system? Is some hot shot district attorney adding to his job security by prosecuting a true American? Ask yourself this, was the damage, economic and political, done to an American citizen? No. Do we...
- Tags: Government, Recruitment & Selection, Al-Jazeera, God, American Citizen, cracker
- Discussion threads 2003-11-13
Additional Resources
- Fedora infrastructure breach?
- Fedora infrastructure breach?Denial isn't a river in EgyptRather than deny anything, the Fedora team is just going to try to keep it under wraps. Wonder what OS their servers are running?Updates seemed to be working last nightBut thanks for the heads up.RE: Fedora infrastructure breach?Hopefully they didn't lose the...
- Tags: Fedora Project, Grub
- Discussion threads 2008-08-18
- (Photos: Hydrogen Road Tour gets into gear)
- (Photos: Hydrogen Road Tour gets into gear)Where's the Hydrogen?I'll tell you how to get enough hydrogen to run the world for millenia. There are certain, very large areas of the world, typically volcanic, which have a massive heat gradient. One such is Kamchatka, on the Eastern border of Siberia. Here...
- Tags: hydrogen, Hydrogen Road Tour, photograph
- Discussion threads 2008-08-13
- TTProtect (zip)
- TTProtect is an advanced software protection tool, it protect software against cracker. It absorb the advantages of the other protections, and adding own characteristics, use of a unique anti-tracking methods, make it difficult to debug protected application. TTprotect features Debugger Detection, Anti-Attached, Drx decoding, Code Chaos and confusion, Virtual Machine...
- Tags: Software, TTProtect, Tools & Techniques, Management
- Software downloads 2008-07-23
- Kaspersky's Malaysian site hacked by Turkish hacker
- According to Zone-h.org, Kaspersky's Malaysian site has been defaced by a Turkish hacker during the weekend, through a SQL injection, leaving the following message - "hacked by m0sted And Amen Kaspersky Shop Hax0red No War Turkish Hacker Thanx to Terrorist Crew all team members". "The official Malaysian Kaspersky Antivirus's...
- Tags: Web, Malware, Web Site, Site, Hacker, Kaspersky, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Security, Viruses And Worms, Internet, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- Ringleader of cybercrime group to be offered a job as cybercrime fighter
- Ringleader of cybercrime group to be offered a job as cybercrime fighter.....All this does is re-enforces that accountability for ones actions are almost non-existent and will only serve to encourage other miscreants to follow in this punks steps.As for the level of knowledge in the law sector... you seem about...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Web browsers, cybercrime fighter, Ringleader, cybercrime group, job
- Discussion threads 2008-07-16
- Dev Team shows off video of jailbroken iPhone 3G
- Engadget's Joshua Topolsky reports that the iPhone Dev Team has already jailbroken an iPhone 3G. Topolsky writes: We can't say this is a surprise... but it is sweet to see. The iPhone Dev Team has added a video to their blog showing off the latest version of...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., Video, iPhone Dev Team, Topolsky, 3G, Corporate Communications, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-15
- What happens when you patch the Internet?
- What happens when you patch the Internet?Most home users do *not* have a router...and they are the largest number of systems exposed to the network. Corporate systems are already protected, and are likely not running Zone Alarm anyway.For the home user Windows XP's firewall is less than secure --...
- Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Patches, Domain names, ZoneAlarm, Internet, patch, server, DNS server, security
- Discussion threads 2008-07-09
- Either choose strong passwords, or don't bother with a password at all
- Earlier today I downloaded the latest Live CD for Ophcrack, the Windows password cracker, and tried it out on a Vista install to see how good of a password buster it is. Conclusion: Either choose strong passwords, or don't bother with a password at all. ...
- Tags: Password, Strong Password, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-05-30
- Either choose strong passwords, or don't bother with a password at all
- Earlier today I downloaded the latest Live CD for Ophcrack, the Windows password cracker, and tried it out on a Vista install to see how good of a password buster it is. Conclusion: Either choose strong passwords, or don't bother with a password at all. by...
- Tags: Strong Password, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, ophcrack, windows, vista, password
- Image galleries 2008-05-30
- Content Protection madness on Vista
- Content Protection madness on VistaBlu-Ray Deserves To FailI agree and am with you 100%. DRM will go away when consumers vote with their wallets. We have already seen some of this with the music industry.Blu-Ray/Sony = EPIC FAILBlu-Ray can kiss my DVD-Loving butt :)I would love to see...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Digital media, Consumer electronics, digital-rights management, Content Protection, Microsoft Windows Vista, HDCP, mplayer, DVD, DRM IS
- Discussion threads 2008-05-14
- McAfee's HackerSafe: When all else fails, rebrand it!
- McAfee's HackerSafe: When all else fails, rebrand it!It doesn't surprise me.McAfee and all the security companies are failing miserably at times to keep up with the cracker community. Simply put, they don't have 1 thousandth the required resources to mitigate the cracker community, and that is assuming they actually...
- Tags: Firewalls, SECURITY, Cyberthreats, McAfee Inc., HackerSafe
- Discussion threads 2008-05-12
- Lottery Cracker (zip)
- Lottery Cracker World analyses lottery draw numbers for patterns and displays the results in graphs and charts. It has a wide range of methods for generating and filtering lottery entries, including dozens of wheels, hot and cold numbers, key numbers, lucky picks and many more. Create multiple syndicates and track...
- Tags: Range, Freelance Writer, Operational Accounting, Finance
- Software downloads 2008-05-09
- Poll of the Day - Should Apple decouple the OS from their hardware?
- Poll of the Day - Should Apple decouple the OS from their hardware?Poll calculations need to be fixedAt the time I write this there are 15 votes.... 53% Yes, 53% No. Huh?There's lots of beauty in vertical integrationIt's the tight integration of hardware and software which makes the Mac...
- Tags: Operating systems, Open Architecture, Lifeboat, Apple Inc., operating system, hardware, OSX
- Discussion threads 2008-04-17
- The worst PC myth of all
- The worst PC myth of allThe myth is that you know what you're talking about.You start off by defining "the best lie" and then you set about telling it.I've been working with personal computers since they were first invented, and have been working as a consultant to corporations using them...
- Tags: Desktops, PC
- Discussion threads 2008-02-27
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