Wednesday | 7 January, 2009
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Stories by: Andrew Brandt

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    Stupid user tricks: IT admin follies 17/06/2008 09:05:55

    For those of us who make our living behind a keyboard in IT, it's hard to imagine a more time-tested vulnerability than the end-user. Armed with network access, these IT viruses wreak havoc nearly everywhere you look -- havoc borne of tech idiocy.
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    Stupid hacker tricks: The folly of youth 06/05/2008 18:28:18

    Ah, youth. Ready to take on the world, today's generation of dynamic, tech-immersed youngsters have grown up alongside the Internet. Firsthand, and sometimes single-handedly, they have advanced some of today's hottest technology trends, from peer-to-peer networking, to massively multiplayer online games, to social networks and instant messaging. And along the way, a small, sociopathic number of them have behaved very, very badly.
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    How to think like an online con man 02/10/2007 09:17:35

    Con job, pretexting, social engineering -- the art and science of manipulating human beings for nefarious ends -- goes back as far as the origin of the species. The techniques have been practiced and perfected by a rogue's gallery of flimflam artists, from legendary carnival operator P. T. Barnum to infamous FBI mole Robert Hanssen.
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    Another form of encryption goes down for the count 21/02/2005 08:01:33

    News that a nine-year-old encryption method -- one that underlies the protection of virtually all secure online communications -- appears to have been cracked by a team of three Chinese researchers has spurred encryption experts around the world to issue a call to action.
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    PDA viruses could get nasty 02/08/2004 07:21:38

    Viruses that target handhelds can be even more dangerous than their cousins that attack PCs, spawning self-replicating programs that hide easily, a security researcher told an audience of security professionals at the Black Hat Briefings conference in Las Vegas last week.
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    Security Flaws Under the Microscope 04/08/2003 10:08:34

    A study unveiled at the Black Hat Briefings conference in Las Vegas last week paints a grim picture of network security problems.
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