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…
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…
Even as WikiLeaks continues to publish its thousands of leaked cables from U.S. diplomats the site is taking steps to stay online despite repeated cyber-attacks, canceled services and government action. – WikiLeaks keeps finding ways to stay online even as it
gets hit with repeated denial-of-service
attacks aimed at keeping people from accessing the site and despite
decisions by technology and financial companies to terminate essential
services.
With each passing day it’s getting harder to shu…
The Vietnamese government refuted charges of a cyber-attack targeting opponents of a Chinese-backed mining operation, calling Google’s comments groundless. According to McAfee, the attack created a botnet of infected Windows PCs and launched distributed denial-of-service attacks against certain political blogs.
– The Vietnamese government rebuffed charges by Google that Vietnamese PC
owners were being targeted
by attackers.
The comments, posted online Saturday, were in response to a blog post by a
member of Googles security team outlining a malware attack. According to
Googles Neel Mehta, the infected …
Google and McAfee have traced widespread malware attacks back to a dispute over a mining operation in Vietnam backed by China. Infected machines have been used to spy on their owners as well as launch distributed denial of service attacks against the mining operation’s critics.
– Google and McAfee have uncovered evidence that a campaign of politically-motivated cyber-attacks are targeting critics of a Chinese-backed mining operation in Vietnam.
In a blog post, Neel Mehta of Googles security team noted the cyber-assault on Vietnamese activists is separate from the Aurora …
Micro-blogging service Twitter has been taken offline in what the company believes is a co-ordinated attack.
The popular site has been subject to a so-called denial-of-service attack, according to the company’s status blog.
Denial-of-service attacks take various forms but often involve a company’s servers being flooded with data in an effort to disable them.
It is not yet clear when the outage began or whether the service has suffered a global blackout.
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AT T says it has lifted a block it put on part of the notorious 4chan.org bulletin board. AT T says the block was a security move in response to a denial-of-service attack against one of its customers, but the incident has touched a nerve among those concerned about net neutrality and censorship.
– AT amp;T blocked portions of the 4chan.org bulletin board July 25 and 26 in
response to denial-of-service attacks against an AT amp;T customer,
touching off a debate on censorship and network neutrality.
In response to criticism, AT amp;T stressed that it moved against 4chan.org
because of the…
