Dan Verton - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Dan Verton

Article | 24/07/2001 Security experts question release of exploit data

When word of the "Code Red" worm first came out a month ago, a security firm released details on the worm's exploit code on the same day that Microsof...

Article | 30/04/2001 NIPC warns companies of Chinese hacker threat

The National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC), the cybersecurity arm of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, warned U.S. businesses yester...

Article | 13/01/2001 Number of hacks, zombies rises

Hackers vandalized and defaced more than 5,800 Web pages last year, up from about 3,800 in 1999, according to Attrition.org, a Web site that keeps tab...

Article | 28/12/2000 Intruder Defaces Nasdaq-100 Index Web Page

A hacker that goes by the name "prime suspectz" cracked into a Nasdaq Stock Market Web server Saturday and replaced the contents of the Nasdaq-100 Ind...

Article | 3/05/2000 Opinion: Intercepts: The Hacker Equation

My mobile listening posts have discerned a confusing pattern of reports on the number of hacker "attacks" launched against the U.S. Department of Def...

Article | 22/03/2000 Hacker-Controlled Tanks, Planes and Warships?

U.S. Army officials are worried that sophisticated hackers and other cybercriminals, including military adversaries, may soon have the ability to hack...

Article | 21/03/2000 A Hacker's Final Exam: Federal Systems

More and more cybervandals are turning their attention to U.S. federal government networks to test their virus-development skills and prove their hack...

Article | 17/03/2000 Army on Hacker Alert

The U.S. Army has placed its cyberdefense teams on full alert after a known hacker group threatened to take down the Army's World Wide Web home page t...