Armenian cyber security expert Samvel Martirosyan warned today of Ddos attacks against Armenian websites. According to his personal site, a massive Ddos attack in 7 Gbps began yesterday in Japan. “Given that the attack is carried out from one country, we can assume that it may be a sensing, and it is possible that massive attacks from different countries may…

DOSarrest and HOSTING partner together to help you understand the details of DDoS attacks - how they are executed, what they typically target and how to quickly and efficiently recover when you fall victim. It will be an interactive and informative session as all attendees will have a chance to participate in and defend against a DDoS attack in Real-Time…

As the Reuters headline read this week “Hackers break into server for Obamacare website” It was about hackers who uploaded malicious code onto a development server, which is part of ObamaCare. The code installed on the government website was said to be part of a larger operation and used primarily to carry out DDoS attacks on other websites. What’s so…

Jay Radcliffe freaked out the medical community in 2011 when he revealed how insulin pumps could be hacked to deliver a fatal dose of insulin (pdf). Yet at a medical device security and privacy roundtable discussion at Black Hat, Radcliffe said “it would be far easier and more likely for an attacker to sneak up behind him and deliver a…

Hacker collective Anonymous has announced that it has taken down over a thousand of crucial Israeli websites in a huge new coordinated cyber-attack called #OpSaveGaza on 11 July and 17 July, in support of the people of Palestine. Some of the websites, such as the Tel Aviv Police Department’s online presence, are still offline two days after the distributed denial of…

According to DOSarrest Internet Security, its newly released Vulnerability Testing and Optimization (VTO) service finds that 90% of websites scanned have one or more vulnerabilities. Of the websites that tested positive for vulnerabilities, 95% of them were susceptible to information leakage due to out-dated software versions and installed modules. Of those tested, below is a general breakdown of their deficiencies….

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA-(Marketwired - Aug. 14, 2013) - DOSarrest Internet Security announced today that it will begin offering a website Vulnerability Testing and Optimization (VTO) service. The services is a comprehensive test that will intelligently crawl a website and find any vulnerabilities in the site’s coding, as well as analyze the structure of the website to see what can be…