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Take it from someone who knows. You must a plan, but you need to prepare for the worst. Tom Henderson, principal researcher for ExtremeLabs, Inc, recently watched a hacker breach one of his company’s primary servers. While he had taken all of the necessary steps to protect the server, it still happened. Here, he shares the experience and the steps he took to mitigate the damage and get the server back online.

Aimed at smaller companies the DNS-server failover service is more of an insurance policy than for big companies, which expect to be hit with big, expensive attacks.

A Vietnamese-based iPhone application developer may have recently bilked unsuspecting iPhone users out of hundreds of dollars in an apparent hack of the iTunes App Store. The apparent scam became public over the July 4th weekend after several news reports that 42 out of the 50 top ranked e-book applications in iTunes were all being sold by a seller named Thuat Nguyen. The rise of Nguyen's apps corresponded with a spike in complaints of iTunes accounts being hacked and overcharged.

The Windows SMB2 security hole remains open and with malware out now that can take advantage of it, it's more dangerous than ever, but there's still no patch for it.

Known as 'Little Hacker,' he'd use the 911 system to send SWAT teams to victims' houses

A security researcher has upgraded a tool that simplifies the placement of difficult-to-detect malware in Microsoft's .Net framework on Windows computers.

Michael Calce (aka Mafiaboy), the Montreal teen hacker who was the subject of an international manhunt after bringing down some of the highest-profile Web sites on the Internet, delivered on his promise to provide insight into underground hacker communities during his keynote with Craig Silverman at IT360 last week.

Having spent his teen years writing botnet programs that break into bank computers, the New Zealand computer whiz who went by the handle AKILL has returned his ill-gotten gains and is now working as a security consultant.

A British systems administrator who hacked into U.S. military computers will have another chance to make his case why he shouldn't be extradited to the U.S.

Now that the information has started to filter in about the infamous hack on Sarah Palin’s Yahoo email account, we can take a look at what happened, and take a look at what it means for you and me. From a political perspective of course, it means we now know that Ms.