IBM Accused of Mail Server Hacking

June 30th, 2009 Texas man accused of hacking into clinic computersDALLAS — A security guard is accused of hacking into computers at a Dallas medical clinic where he worked in hopes of launching a massive computer attack before or on July 4. Jesse William McGraw is being detained following his arrest Friday on a charge of downloading malicious code into a computer without authorization.

November 4th, 2007 All SSH servers on the internet are heavily targeted for brute-force cracking of passwords. Easy passwords can and are often cracked to gain full control over the machine.

August 28th, 2006 I faced serious hacking attempts from a server owned by my dedicated web hosting provider, LayeredTech. More than 23, 000 brute force attempts were made on ssh server alone.

August 25th, 2005 I enjoyed this short informative movie about preventing hacking and protecting your computer from Sunrise, a broadband provider from Switzerland. It talks about firewalls, IP address blocking, spamming, trojans etc.

February 15th, 2006 Overview A Java class to shutdown Apache James Mail Server via TCP/IP. It shuts down Apache James Mail Server by passing shutdown command via simulated telnet session.

June 21st, 2006 For old-timers (myself included) hacking is not intrinsically unethical, unlike what is potrayed by traditional media. Hacking is a mindset of exploring and solving problems.

September 26th, 2006 Ever since I had written a post on how Samy hacked MySpace, I have been inundated with comments asking me how to hack MySpace. It is obvious that the people asking didn't realize that the actual purpose of the article was not to help hacking MySpace, but to discuss about an intelligent exploit after it was patched.

October 23rd, 2007 Postfix is an excellent and powerful mail transfer agent (MTA) like sendmail. You can configure postfix to send outbound mails directly (default) or relay it to another MTA, which could be postfix or sendmail.

June 9th, 2009 T-Mobile: No security breach in alleged hacking BELLEVUE, Washington — T-Mobile USA Inc. said Tuesday that it did not suffer a security breach after a hacker claimed this weekend to have accessed the company's servers.

September 4th, 2006 Joel Spolsky was asked four important questions on enterprise development. Joel didn't offer a clear answer on some of them.

November 7th, 2005 Under the UK's Computer Misuse Act, denial of service attack isn't apparently a crime. A British teenager has been recently cleared of launching a denial-of-service attack against his former employer.

October 18th, 2007 I recently got two interesting comments from a scammer. The comments are very interesting because it preys on the need of people to snoop around other's MySpace account (or life in general) to dupe them of their own account information.

October 9th, 2006 In PHP on Microsoft Windows you have to simply configure two parameters to enable sending mails through SMTP server. In Unix / Linux it is slightly more complicated.

July 12th, 2006 Take a look at your log file (/var/log/secure for Fedora Core 4) and you will discover numerous automated ssh hacking attempts using dictionary attack. So now you have identified the offending addresses.

March 10th, 2009 HYDERABAD - The investigations into Rs.78 billion (Rs.7,800 crore) scam in Satyam Computer Services picked up momentum as the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Tuesday questioned the IT firm's disgraced former chairman B. Ramalinga Raju and four other accused.