By Catherine Solyom, Postmedia News MONTREAL — “Government of Quebec, you have been warned.” The unmasked threat was part of an Anonymous video broadcast early Saturday, just as the international hacktivist collective brought down 13 Quebec government and police websites, as it officially launched #OpQuebec and brought the ongoing street protests online. On Wednesday, websites for the Quebec public safety…
Denial of Service Attacks and Botnets Pose Increased Risk to Organizations, With Successful Attacks Costing Businesses Over $100,000 per Incident REDWOOD CITY, CA, May 22, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — Check Point(R) Software Technologies Ltd. CHKP +0.04% , the worldwide leader in securing the Internet, today announced the results of a new survey revealing 65 percent of organizations who experienced…
New Data from Neustar Finds DDoS Attacks Can Cost Retailers More Than $100,000 Per Hour May 15, 2012, 9:30 a.m. EDT STERLING, Va., May 15, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Neustar, Inc., a trusted, neutral provider of real-time information and analysis to the Internet, telecommunications, entertainment and marketing industries, today released the results of a survey asking 1,000 IT professionals across…
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…
