Paul F. Roberts

A 20-year-old California man who was charged with operating a 400,000 strong “botnet” of compromised computer zombies pleaded guilty Jan. 23 and agreed to pay damages to the U.S. military and forfeit proceeds from the botnet operation, including a BMW. Jeanson James Ancheta of Downey, Calif., admitted using his botnet to launch DDoS (distributed-denial-of-service) attacks […]

Alumni and friends of Notre Dame University may have had their personal information snatched by hackers, according to a university spokesperson. This hack is the third in a series of compromises of fund-raising systems at other universities. A server containing social security numbers, credit card numbers and check images from donors to the South Bend, […]

Cyveillance on Tuesday announced a new dashboard product that it claims will help companies keep track of Internet fraud and online criminal activity that affects their organizations. Cyveillance Intelligence Center 3.0 is an enterprise online risk management product that allows IT administrators to track threats in cyberspace, including phishing, physical threats, and identity and IP […]

IBM recorded more than 1 billion suspicious computer security events in 2005, despite a leveling off in the amount of spam e-mail and a decrease in major Internet worm and virus outbreaks. Enterprises should expect to see the same level of malicious traffic in 2006, even as online criminal groups shift to stealth attacks and […]

Cyber-security and computer experts from the government and law enforcement are increasingly concerned about malicious code that runs on Linux and Apple Computer Inc.s Mac OS X operating systems and threats posed by devices such as iPods and Microsoft Corp. Xboxes. Intensive courses on the Mac OS X and Linux operating systems, as well as […]

A security expert working on a new version of an Oracle database rootkit says the programs are easy to create and could soon be as common as those that target operating systems like Windows. Alexander Kornbrust, of Red Database Security GmbH, told eWEEK that he is developing Version 2.0 of a rootkit program he first […]

An FBI survey of more than 2,000 public and private organizations on the subject of cyber-crime found that almost 90 percent had experienced computer security incidents in 2005. The 2005 FBI Computer Crime Survey is one of the largest by the agency on the topic of cyber-crime and found widespread evidence of criminal online behavior […]

The former manager of a San Jose, Calif., medical group was indicted on Thursday for stealing medical records for around 200,000 patients. Joseph Nathaniel Harris of San Jose is accused of stealing computers and DVDs that included detailed medical histories for patients of the San Jose Medical Group in March. Harris was indicted by a […]

Researchers at Sunbelt Software Inc. have uncovered a special program they said they believe is being used to create keylogging and Trojan horse programs that target customers of financial institutions in the United Kingdom, United States and Canada. Researchers recently discovered the “builder” program on a Web site that was harvesting information from a variant […]

SPI Dynamics Inc. unveiled Monday a management platform for measuring Web application security risk. AMP (Assessment Management Platform) 2.0 consolidates network scanning across enterprise networks and adds features like scheduling for Web application scans, user role-based access control and auditing, said Erik Peterson, SPI Dynamics vice president of product marketing. AMP works with SPIs WebInspect […]

Mysterious Web attack traffic caused some of 3Com Corp.s TippingPoint IPS devices to crash last week, requiring a hasty patch by the company. Some TippingPoint customers had their IPS (intrusion prevention system) appliances crash while trying to process a specific kind of Internet attack traffic last week. The company learned of the problem on Friday […]

The U.S. Militarys point man for global network operations says that a total overhaul of the governments classified and unclassified information networks may be necessary to ward off legions of hackers and adequately protect the military from crippling attacks in future conflicts. The Department of Defense will soon begin evaluating the security of more than […]