Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks were the hot topic at WikiLeaks and Online Civil Disobedience, a Social Media Week New York panel hosted by the Personal Democracy Forum and moderated by its editor and curator, Micah Sifry. Speakers at the event, in order, were Deanna Zandt, author of Share This: How You Will Change the World with Social Networking; Evgeny Morozov,…
The Twitterverse was buzzing this morning with loads of users complaining that they couldn’t log into the Bank of America accounts. As of 10:40am EST, there hasn’t been an official announcement by the company as to the problem, but some are speculating that it’s “Anonymous,” i.e. the gang of pro Wikileaks hackers launching a Denial of Service attack. From Twitter:…
The malware threats posed by USB drives will increase as the devices become cheaper and data are increasingly distributed on them at trade shows, predicts Narus, a supplier of network security products. The threat posed by malware-invested USB drives is one of the top cybersecurity threats identified by Narus for this year. One out of every eight malware attacks on…
(Newser) – In a sort of cyber-censorship, those who disagree with a human rights group have an increasingly easy answer: Hack its website. Hackers are increasingly targeting such groups, researchers find, using DDoS attacks to inundate a website with data in order to shut it down—sometimes for weeks. Between August 2009 and September 2010, 140 such attacks targeted more than…
Network management systems provider Arbor Networks is enhancing its contract with PromonLogicalis, integrator of telecommunications and information technology systems in Brazil. PromonLogicalis will offer Arbor’s full line of Peaklow products, including the Peakflow SP platform, the service for the detection and mitigation of network-borne attacks. PromonLogicalis will be selling the full line of Arbor Networks Peakflow products, including Peakflow SP…
Microsoft has confirmed that two network devices on its network have indeed been compromised and were being used by criminals to route traffic to more than a thousand websites used to push fake pills. After an internal investigation, they found that the devices - located in a testing lab - were misconfigured and have been compromised due to human error….
There’s some interesting things going on at the Acs-law.co.uk website. It’s no longer resolving to an error page; instead a new welcome screen splashes some rather peculiar information. It’s also worth noting the co.uk domain managed ACS:Law’s emails - the co.org website was the main domain. The functioning web page directs the users attention to a mirror of ACS:Law’s name…
A man reportedly targeted by an online sex sting was convicted yesterday on a charge relating to launching denial-of-service attacks on sites that posted stories about the incident. Bruce Raisley, 49, of Kansas City, Mo., was convicted of launching a program that infected about 100,000 computers around the world and directing them to attack the Web sites of Rolling Stone…
Founded in 2008, Posterous is an ingenious Web publishing platform that can take just about any file, photo or video sent in an e-mail attachment and automatically post it to a customer’s website or blog. Unfortunately the startup experienced a few glitches last week. “On Wednesday and Friday, our servers were hit by massive Denial of Service (DoS) attacks,” wrote…
A group of scammers is trying to trick website owners into sending them money by threatening to launch crippling Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. According to security researchers from Symantec who intercepted the fake messages, the scammers are sending them to email addresses they gather from domain whois information. The rogue emails come with subjects of “Hosting – Important…
