2014-03-17 07:29 Kiev – With cyber attacks already launched against Crimean separatists, the Kremlin and Nato, the ground war may not have started in Ukraine but computer warfare is already raging. In recent days – and with increasing intensity on… Read More ›
Denial-of-service attack
Obamacare website ‘either hacked or will be soon’ Exposing highly sensitive and personal information about US citizens, warns infosec expert
And it won’t be from hacktivists wielding dud ‘Destroy Obama Care’ ray gun By John Leyden Hackers have thrown multiple attacks at US President Obama’s medical insurance bazaar HealthCare.gov since it went live in October, according to a senior US… Read More ›
Anonymous claims Parliament Wi-Fi hack during London protest
Cyber assaults ‘slow traffic’ as miscreants slurp email logins By Jasper Hamill Posted in Security, 12th November 2013 16:03 GMT Anonymous hacktivists have claimed they used laptops to launch cyber attacks against the British government whilst attending a protest in… Read More ›
NSA Denies Website Outage Is The Result Of A Cyberattack ( Still down as of 7:30pm PST)
Brian Jones and Paul Szoldra Oct. 25, 2013, 6:10 PM Arturo Rodriguez / Associated Press Despite speculation that mystery hacker-group “Anonymous” is behind it, the NSA has denied their official website being down is the result of… Read More ›
Leaky security could scuttle global ship-tracking system / Nuke-carrying Iranian ghost ships could be on the USA’s radar right now
By Phil Muncaster 17th October 2013 06:28 GMT Security researchers have found a major flaw in the Automatic Identification System (AIS), a mandatory tracking system for ships, which could leave the 400,000 vessels currently using it globally wide open to… Read More ›
UK bankers prep for cyberwar: Will simulate ATTACK on system
One-day op will test stock market, payment bods’ resistance to hackers By John Leyden Posted in Security, 8th October 2013 07:27 GMT UK banks, the stock market and payment providers will undergo extensive stress tests in November that are designed… Read More ›
Chinese authorities say massive DDoS attack took down .cn domain
Middle Kingdom pledges immediate action By Iain Thomson Posted in Security, The China Internet Network Information Center (CINIC) has reported that on Sunday it suffered the largest ever DDoS attack it has ever experienced against the .cn domain, an… Read More ›
North Korea ready for cyberwar
Posted By Josh Peterson On 1:10 PM 04/05/2013 In Tech Despite the popular impression that North Korea is technologically inept, the regime boasts a significant and effective cyber arsenal, in addition to what is currently known about its nuclear arsenal…. Read More ›
‘Biggest cyber-attack in history’ slows down global internet after quarrel between web-hosting company and anti-spam group
Internet services across the world have been disrupted and widespread congestion risks jamming crucial online infrastructure say experts Rob Williams Wednesday, 27 March 2013 A row between an anti-spam group and a web-hosting company has caused a slowdown in the… Read More ›
Experts doubt Anonymous Mossad spy outing claims are kosher
Tinker, tailor, soldier, cobblers By John Leyden Posted in Security, 26th March 2013 12:56 GMT Free whitepaper – IT infrastructure monitoring strategies Hacktivists claim to have published leaked data on more than 30,000 Israeli officials, including members of Israel’s Mossad… Read More ›
Under the hood of recent DDoS Attack on U.S. Banks
Author : Wang Wei on 1/10/2013 02:48:00 AM Incapsula security study reveals how a simple neglect in managing the administrative password of a small UK site was quickly exploited by Botnet shepherds operating obscurely out of Turkey to hurl large… Read More ›
10,000 Indian government and military emails hacked
State-sponsored snoopers suspected of large scale incursion By Phil Muncaster Posted in Security, 21st December 2012 05:14 GMT Free whitepaper – Why RAID is Dead for Big Data Storage India’s government and military have suffered one of the worst cyber attacks… Read More ›
WordPress Pingback Vulnerability Serves DDoS attack feature
Author : Mohit Kumar on 12/18/2012 06:47:00 AM Accunetix a web application security company reported vulnerabilities found in the WordPress Pingback feature. According to report, Pingback vulnerability exists in the WordPress blogging platform that could leak information and lead to… Read More ›
UK Ministry of Defence hacked by NullCrew ( Profanity Warning)
Posted by Mohit Kumar on 11/06/2012 07:56:00 AM | . The United Kingdom Ministry of Defence website (www.qhm.mod.uk) hacked by two Null Hacking Crew members @OfficialNull and @Timoxeline and They extracted data published online. The data dump include 3400 email … Read More ›
Millions affected after cyber attack on HSBC
HSBC’s websites across the world have been hit by one of the largest cyber attacks to strike a bank in an attack that left millions of customers without access to online services. An unknown group launched a so-called “denial of… Read More ›
Swedish Internet sites unreachable after warning from Anonymous
By Agence France-Presse Friday, October 5, 2012 20:00 EDT Topics: swedish authorities ♦ Swedish Central Bank ♦ Swedish government Several Swedish government websites could not be accessed Friday after they had received a warning the evening before from a group… Read More ›
Keeping Your Site Alive
In Appreciation to our Friends at the EFF…Engineering Evil Denial of service (DoS) and distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are increasingly common phenomena, used by a variety of actors—from activists to governments—to temporarily or indefinitely prevent a site from functioning efficiently. Often, the… Read More ›
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