Hackers access Playboy.com's credit card data
Computer hackers broke into the Playboy Enterprises' Web site -- playboy.com -- gaining access to the credit card numbers of several customers, a company spokeswoman said Tuesday.

The company's technology team discovered the breach last weekend before the hackers sent threatening e-mails to the company's customers, said Playboy spokeswoman Laura Sigman. Consumers began alerting Playboy about the violation Sunday evening.

Firms warned of 'drive-by hackers'
Companies that use wireless technology to allow workers to log into networks throughout offices have been warned they could be laying themselves open to hackers.

The alert comes ahead of the scheduled signing in Hungary on Friday of a European convention that aims to unite about 30 countries in the fight against cyber-criminals.

OuterBrains 2K2 (a geek event)
What is OuterBrains ?

OuterBrains 2K2 is a party that brings together the hackers- and demo-scene. The hackers will have their hacking competitions and some nice seminars where the demo-scene people have their demos and related competitions. Three days non-stop action. More than 400+ people sharing ideas, tips, tricks, code, gfx, music and other digital information.

FBI software cracks encryption wall
MAGIC LANTERN installs so-called “keylogging” software on a suspect’s machine that is capable of capturing keystrokes typed on a computer. By tracking exactly what a suspect types, critical encryption key information can be gathered, and then transmitted back to the FBI, according to the source, who requested anonymity.
The virus can be sent to the suspect via e-mail — perhaps sent for the FBI by a trusted friend or relative. The FBI can also use common vulnerabilities to break into a suspect’s computer and insert Magic Lantern, the source said.
Magic Lantern is one of a series of enhancements currently being developed for the FBI’s Carnivore project, the source said, under the umbrella project name of Cyber Knight.

the-Cloak
The Cloak sits between your computer and any web sites you visit. It prevents the web sites you visit from finding out who you are. And it can use the standard SSL protocol to encrypt all communication from your browser, so that no one (except for the-Cloak) knows where you are surfing.

No Proxy
Free anonymous surfing!

Anti Censoring Section
Search For a Public Proxy: Search our Frequently Updated Database for Free Public Proxies.
Anonymity on the net: Hiding your real IP when using normal web applications ( Browsing - ICQ - IRC , etc )
Using Shell accounts.
Bypassing Proxy Restrictions (Do you wanna surf Blocked Pages?) Public Proxy Servers, and how to use them
Redirectors ( Redir - SSH , etc )
CGI Proxy Servers ( including how to build your own! )
Port Tunneling ( HTTP-PORT® )
Surfing the net through a shell account ( Lynx )
Bypassing ISP`s Port Blocks

Plan to Migrate to Advanced Encryption Standard
Once considered invulnerable, the Data Encryption Standard that secures many banking and e-commerce transactions has been cracked. Enterprises should switch to the Advanced Encryption Standard when feasible.

On the Security of PHP, Part 1
This article will provide you an overview of various security issues with PHP and offer advice on secure PHP programming practices.

The Security Specific Search Engine
Welcome to searchSecurity.com's archive of Previous Events. Here, you can find Host to previous Q&A talks with Security professionals and experts.

News: Bug secrecy vs. full disclosure
By Bruce Schneider.
Last month Scott Culp, manager of the security response center at Microsoft, published an essay describing the current practice of publishing security vulnerabilities to be "information anarchy." He claimed that we'd all be a lot safer if researchers would keep details about vulnerabilities to themselves, and stop arming hackers with offensive tools. Last week, at Microsoft's Trusted Computing Forum, Culp announced a new coalition to put these ideas into practice.
This is the classic "bug secrecy vs. full disclosure" debate. I've written about it previously in Crypto-Gram; others have written about it as well. It's a complicated issue with subtle implications all over computer security, and it's one worth discussing again.

ICANN eyes DNS security, solutions
MARINA DEL REY, Calif. - Of all the Internet's security concerns, one of the least troublesome may be the physical security of its root name servers, the top servers in the Internet's traffic directing system. There are only 13 of them, a redundant system located in scattered locations around the world, any one of which could probably be reconfigured in a pinch on a "beefy laptop."

EPIC - Tools for Protecting Online Privacy
EPIC Online Guide to Practical Privacy Tools.

Private Idaho 3.52t
Private Idaho is a PGP, anonymous remailer, and nym server front-end for Windows. It was initially made by Joel McNamara and, when he released the source code, I (Ian Lynagh) picked it up "just to look at it". Within a few days I had released PI3.0tb1 and haven't looked back since.

Cryptography and Network Security
Like the author says "This page is unmaintained and full of many old, rotted links. Sorry. " Anyway, some links do work!

ESL400 scanner: Hardware like this makes it possible to eavesdrop the contents of your monitor (e.g. from a van in front of your office or from the neighboring flat)
Zero Emission Pad Freeware
Since decades international secret services use the fact that all electronic devices emit compromising rays. These rays can be used to recover a picture displayed by a monitor. Even if these rays passed walls and the receiver is many meters away. Together with our partner, the University of Cambridge (Great Britain), we offer to you the possibility to defuse these compromising rays via software (patent-pending "Soft-Tempest"). The text editor Steganos II Zero Emission Pad is the world's first Windows editor that supports the emission defusing display.

Stego Online by Romana Machado
This privacy utility demonstrates a new way of communicating securely. Want to communicate securely, but don't want to send large files of strange-looking numbers? Want to use strong crypto, but know that your email is not secure enough? Stego works like invisible ink for Internet communication. Stego can hide an encrypted text file in a GIF format image file - which is the most commonly used image format on the World Wide Web. The resulting GIF can be attached to an email message or posted on a web page.

Steganography Information, Software, and News to Enhance Your Privacy.
In an ideal world we would all be able to openly send encrypted email or files to each other with no fear of reprisals. However there are often cases when this is not possible, either because you are working for a company that does not allow encrypted email or perhaps the local government does not approve of encrypted communication (a reality in some parts of the world). This is where steganography can come into play.
Steganography simply takes one piece of information and hides it within another. Computer files (images, sounds recordings, even disks) contain unused or insignificant areas of data. Steganography takes advantage of these areas, replacing them with information (encrypted mail, for instance). The files can then be exchanged without anyone knowing what really lies inside of them. An image of the space shuttle landing might contain a private letter to a friend. A recording of a short sentence might contain your company's plans for a secret new product. Steganography can also be used to place a hidden "trademark" in images, music, and software, a technique referred to as watermarking.

Paranoids Secure Communications Handbook
In PDF format.

When Osama Bin Ladin Was Tim Osman
Conspiracy Theory: The other man, dressed in Docker's clothing, was not a native Afghan any more than Olberg was. He was a 27-year-old Saudi. Tim Osman (Ossman) has recently become better known as Osama Bin Ladin. "Tim Osman" was the name assigned to him by the CIA for his tour of the U.S. and U.S. military bases, in search of political support and armaments.