Putting stateful firewalls in front of servers can be a liability in the fight against DDoS, according to Arbor Networks. – Between the attacks by quot;Anonymous quot; and censorship
efforts by various governments, distributed denial-of-service (DDoS)
attacks were a familiar feature of news stories in 2010.
But while the sophistication of attacks may have grown during the past year,
efforts by Internet service pro…
Customers can see all malicious attacks attempted on their sites on the FireHost platform through the Security View graphical interface on the customer dashboard. – Firehost added a Security View feature to its customer
portal to give IT managers a detailed overview of the types of attacks hitting
their systems, the secure hosting provider said Feb. 1.
FireHost uses a variety of virtualization technologies to
protect customers from hacking attempts, malware…
Police in the U.K. have arrested five people in connection with attacks launched by the loosely affiliated group "Anonymous." – Police in the U.K. arrested five males Jan. 27 in connection with
several distributed denial-of-service attacks associated with the group
‘Anonymous.
The suspects, ages 15-26, were picked up as part of what U.K.
police called an ongoing investigation into DDoS attacks launched
against several…
Pakistani intelligence officials have been quoted as saying two separate attacks today by U.S. drones have killed at least six suspected militants.
The AFP and Associated Press news agencies quoted officials as saying the first strike hit a vehicle killing four militants.
Teenagers fond of too much of sugar in their diet are likely to face a higher heart attack risk as adults. A study found that teens who consume elevated amounts of added sugars in drinks and foods are more likely to have poor cholesterol and triglyceride profiles which may lead to heart disease later in [...]
Iraq’s Interior Ministry says militants have launched a series of bomb attacks on Christian homes in Baghdad, killing two people and wounding 16 others.
Police say assailants in southwest Baghdad threw explosives into the home of a Christian family, causing the two fatalities and injuring five others.
Cyber-criminals will target Apple products, Google TV, geo-location services such as Foursquare and Gowalla, and other social media sites in 2011, far more than traditional e-mail methods, said McAfee Labs researchers. – Researchers at McAfee Labs predicted on Dec. 28 that
cyber-criminals will target the latest and talked about online platforms,
including Google TV, Apples iPhone, and foursquare, in 2011.
Noting that the threats landscape has quot;changed
considerably quot; in 2010, McAfee Labs 2011 Threat Pred…
A recap of the past week in IT security news includes vulnerability reports from Microsoft, new research on the impact of DDoS attacks on free speech and more. – The past week in security featured a round of new security warnings from
Microsoft, security research and a feud between neighbors that turned
into a miniature cyber-war.
Microsoft issued an advisory Dec. 22 for a security
vulnerability affecting Internet Explorer 6, 7 and 8.
According to …
A new report from Harvard University underscores the use of DDoS attacks to silence political speech, and what organizations can do about it. – Its no secret denial-of-service attacks have increasingly become a
mode of protest in the cyber-world, as well as a way to silence
political critics; but a new report from Harvard University’s
Berkman Center for Internet amp; Society underscores just how much.
According to the report (PDF), …
Dutch authorities on Friday said police in the Netherlands arrested a 16-year-old who has admitted attacking websites belonging to WikiLeaks opponents. A spokesman for the national prosecutor’s office said the teenager had “admitted launching attacks on Visa and Mastercard sites.†A statement said he was probably “part of a larger group of hackersâ€.
The attacks on MasterCard, PayPal and other sites underscore the ties between hacktivism and the growth of opt-in botnets. – The WikiLeaks controversy has spilled far beyond discussions of
classified documents into the realm of cyber-security, where reports
of denial-of-service attacks against everything from MasterCard to PayPal have flooded the press.
Behind those reports, though, is the growing issue
of opt-in b…
Ethnically-motivated attacks, on Serbs and Roma in particular, as well as the impunity of perpetrators continue to be a serious problem in Croatia. At the same time the presence of national minorities in state administration is still unsatisfactory, reads an Opinion on Croatia issued by the Council of Europe Advisory Committee on the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities.
As WikiLeaks supporters and hackers hit PayPal and PostFinance with Denial-of-Service attacks for anti-WikiLeaks behavior, the group is also targeted in a DoS counterattack. – The anonymous group of hackers who launch DoS attacks against the entertainment industry refocused their campaign to target companies perceived to be anti-WikiLeaks. In response, the same group is also currently under a DoS attack for supporting the whistle-blowing site.
“We fight for the same re…
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has branded the release of top secret files by the whistle- blowing website Wikileaks as “an attack on the worldâ€.
Washington’s most senior diplomat vowed to prevent further leaks and denounced the publication of the confidential diplomatic cables as a crime.
One of Russia’s most respected journalists, Leonid Parfyonov, has launched a stinging attack on the state of television news in his country.
He said that Russian TV correspondents were no longer journalists, but bureaucrats serving the state.
Bollywood director Mahesh Bhatt began filming ‘Kuch Log’, based on the 26/11 Mumbai attacks. The movie revolves around an individual belonging to the Muslim community. Actor Anupam Kher said that he was proud to be a part of the movie. “Out of every terror attack, a story comes out which depicts the life of an [...]
Stem cells derived from belly fat could be used to treat heart attacks, says a new study. “The study suggests that these cells can be safely obtained and infused inside the hearts of patients following an acute heart attack,” said Eric (HJ) Duckers, lead author of the small study and head of Molecular Cardiology Laboratory [...]
Security vendors are saying that attacks on the Mac are now significant enough that Apple users should invest in antivirus software for what was once the "invulnerable" platform. With Koobface variant Boonana fresh in people’s minds, the concept of a virus attacking Macs seems less laughable than it did even two years ago. "Mac users must remember that less targeted is not the same as invulnerable," said Richard Wang, manager of SophosLabs. The threat is still not that prevalent, with only "one to two" attacks on Macs each week, compared with the "tens of thousands" per day against Windows PCs. Mac OS X has only 10.6 percent market share in the United States, according to IDC and Gartner, but the day hackers will find the platform worth targeting is not far off, vendors said. Mac antivirus software is not new, but it used to have a bad reputation for being resource-hungry and inconvenient. That’s soon to change as vendors release new Mac antivirus tools that are quite unobtrusive. Here are some of them. – …
Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards allegedly attacked a Swedish journalist during an interview in Paris. Spinner reported that Richards was furious over Markus Larsson, a music critic, who writes in Swedish paper Aftonbladet and gave Stones a bad rating in 2007. A few minutes into their interview, which was part of a publicity tour for [...]
An IE zero-day has been linked to more malware attacks as well as a well-known exploit kit. – More malware has been seen targeting a zero-day flaw in Internet Explorer that has already made its way into a popular crimeware toolkit.
The bug, which was discovered by Symantec, was linked last week to a backdoor Trojan known as Pirpi. However, researchers at FireEye have noted a Trojan named…
