Islamist element in attacks. A pro-Islamic, anti-American hacking campaign appears to have jumped the gun and started early with hundreds of sites being compromised today. Set to take place on May 7 this month - thought to be US time - and targeting government sites in the US, Israel and India, the campaign is called #OpUSA. It is coordinated mainly…
President Barack Obama is shining yet another light on the rising cybersecurity threat in the US, sitting down with more than a dozen CEOs inside the White House Situation Room to discuss how government and the private sector can work together to better protect the nation’s citizens and critical infrastructure. “What is absolutely true is that we have seen a…
A Russian man has been arrested in Cyprus on charges that he launched denial-of-service attacks on Amazon.com and eBay in 2008, the U.S. Department of Justice announced. Dmitry Olegovich Zubakha, 25, of Moscow, was arrested Wednesday, the DOJ said. An indictment against Zubakha in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington, unsealed Thursday, alleges that he and another…
Late last month, two members of the hacker group LulzSec pleaded guilty to launching distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against entities ranging from the state of Arizona to Nintendo to the CIA. Yet despite extensive media coverage of such attacks, chief information security officers are still surprised when their companies get hit. This is not an unforeseeable lightning bolt from the…
Last night Azerbaijani hackers attacked BlogNews.am, Armenpress.am websites, and Turkish hackers attacked Beeline.am website. Information security specialist Samvel Martirosyan informed about this. Armenpress.am and Beeline.am websites aren’t functioning at present. According to the information circulated by BlogNews.am, a significant part of the information on the website was deleted because of the hackers’ actions. At this moment, the website’s administration is…
Last night hacktivist group Anonymous sent out an open letter to the government of India criticizing the government and ISP companies for blocking torrent and video sharing websites. While doing so, the group clarified the definition of a DDoS attack, a type of online attack the group has been ravaging against government websites. Less of a threatening letter and more…
Security researcher Alexander Klink and Julian Wälde revealed a serious vulnerability that until recently affected the vast majority of web server. The attack only requires a single HTTP request that is specially designed to create hash code collisions in POST form data. When first discovered this attack affected Python, Ruby, PHP, Java, and ASP.NET, but vendors have been working with…
Data finds over 1 m UK Home PCs Belonging to Botnets The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has reported that a Dutch security researchers’ group trying to determine methods by which compromising of home PCs can be lessened from getting criminally used, recently, discovered that crime botnets seized over 1m home computers in UK. Incidentally, botnets are described as collections of…
According to McAfee’s third quarter security threats report (Q3-2011), revealed by Intel-owned security technology firm, cybercriminals seems to change their tactics of circulating malware for avoiding law enforcement, reports v3.co.uk on November 21, 2011. Commenting on the findings, Toralv Dirro, Security Strategist at McAfee Labs EMEA (Europe Middle East and Africa) said that as a result of a sudden augment…
A new paper being presented next month at the Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC) shows easy it is to infiltrate Facebook and harvest valuable user data. Botnets, networks of hijacked computers controlled remotely for criminal gain or spreading propaganda, have been aggravating cybersecurity professionals for years. The near-billion people connected to social networks has made Facebook and Twitter the new…
