09/03/2010
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CAO attack shows need for action on cybercrime |
| An attack last week on the Central Applications Office (CAO) website left thousands of worried students unable to gain access to the site to accept their third-level offers. |
09/02/2010
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Pentagon considers preemptive strikes as part of cyber-defense strategy |
| The Pentagon is contemplating an aggressive approach to defending its computer systems that includes preemptive actions such as knocking out parts of an adversary's computer network overseas - but it is still wrestling with how to pursue the strategy lega |
09/01/2010
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Cisco patches bug that crashed 1 percent of Internet |
| A Duke University experiment inadvertently uncovered a bug in Cisco IOS XR |
08/31/2010
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Pushdo Botnet Crippled Via Coordinated Takedown |
| Security researchers have pushed large parts of the spam maker offline, but it may not decrease overall crimeware levels. |
08/30/2010
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Cyber Crime World Actually Disorganized According to Researchers |
| While cyber crime is often thought to be headed by organized criminal gangs working to extort vast sums of money, it appears, however, the cyber crime underworld is actually less organized. |
08/27/2010
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The penultimate guide to stopping a DDoS attack - A new approach |
| The best ways to stop DDoS attacks without hardware intervention. If the tactics in this article don't work, you may need to invest in your very own RioRey device. |
08/26/2010
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Defense Official Confirms Cyber Attack |
| A senior defense official has confirmed that the breach of U.S. military networks as a result of an infected USB drive, which was placed into a military laptop in the Middle East in 2008. |
08/25/2010
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DDoS botnet family discovered targeting scores of sites |
| A new family of bots is responsible for nearly 200 distributed denial-of-service attacks targeting websites in China, the United States, South Korea and Germany, according to researchers at security firm Arbor Networks |
08/24/2010
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Malware Implicated in Fatal Spanair Plane Crash |
| Authorities investigating the 2008 crash of Spanair flight 5022 have discovered a central computer system used to monitor technical problems in the aircraft was infected with malware. |
08/23/2010
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Nigeria Forms Cyber Prosecution Team |
| The Nigerian government has approved the formation of a cyber prosecution team to spearhead the country's battle against cyber crime. |
08/20/2010
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Employees Remain Biggest Cyber Threat |
| Insiders remain the biggest threat for network security, according to a survey conducted by PacketMotion. The insiders provide foreign intelligence and cyber miscreants with direct access to networks, largely through failing to abide by established securi |
08/19/2010
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Scammers Make DDoS Threats Against Website Owners |
| A group of scammers is trying to trick website owners into sending them money by threatening to launch crippling Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. |
08/18/2010
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Rise in Latvian botnets prompts Spamhaus row |
| Small nation battles rudeness |
08/17/2010
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Virgin Media to Notify Owners of Infected Computers |
| Virgin Media, one of the biggest Internet service providers in UK, plans to start sending warning letters to customers if their computers are infected and are generating botnet-related traffic. |
08/16/2010
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6 reasons to worry about cybersecurity |
| The threats from increasingly professional cyber criminals, spies and hackers are evolving to address the adoption of new technologies and platforms by government and private-sector enterprises. |
08/13/2010
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Server-based botnet floods net with brutish SSH attacks |
| PHP patch laggards to blame |
08/12/2010
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Thousands of online banking customers have accounts emptied by 'most dangerous trojan virus ever created' |
| Cyber criminals have raided the accounts of thousands of British internet bank customers in one of the most sophisticated attacks of its kind. |
08/11/2010
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Top Five Worst DNS Security Incidents |
| Preserving Internet security is often an iterative process, with defenders aware that they must be responsive as well as proactive in order to stay one step ahead of would-be attackers. Software developers must respond to vulnerabilities discovered in the |
08/10/2010
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Korea trying to put cyber security on G20 agenda |
| Korea is attempting to present computer security as a topic of discussion for the Group of 20 meetings in Seoul later this year. However, the talks for establishing an international body for combating cybercrimes seem to be discouraged |
08/09/2010
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Zombie PCs: Time for their zombie owners to take some responsibility |
| It's time lazy web users took responsibility for themselves online, says silicon.com editor Steve Ranger. |
08/06/2010
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Cloud-Based Denial Of Service Attacks Looming, Researchers Say |
| Two consultants use a handful of virtual servers in Amazon's EC2 cloud to take down an SMB's network |
08/05/2010
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63% of web users ok with UK cyber-spying on other countries |
| Denial of Service attacks for financial gain are acceptable too |
08/04/2010
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End-users say a DDoS attack would be fair in a wartime situation, as comments are made on who would police such activity |
| Facebook should use its security page to inform users about current threats and scams on the website. |
08/03/2010
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Former NSA Director: Countries Spewing Cyberattacks Should Be Held Responsible |
| Attribution is one of the biggest problems on the internet when it comes to cyberwarfare. How do you hold a nation responsible for malicious attacks if you can't determine whether the activity was state-sponsored? |
08/02/2010
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BBC buys, uses botnet to show dangers to PCs |
| To demonstrate the threats from botnets, the BBC purchased a network of 22,000 infected computers, used it to spam its own e-mail accounts and for a denial-of-service test, and then left messages on the hijacked computers that they were infected. |
07/30/2010
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Internet FBI Sting Nabs Botnet Kingpin Who Infected 12M+ Machines |
| Computer crime doesn't pay in the long run |
07/29/2010
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With Botnets Everywhere, DDoS Attacks Get Cheaper |
| Cyber-crime just doesn't pay like it used to. |
07/28/2010
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Cyber criminals have a 10 per cent success rate |
| The bad guys are managing to have their wicked way with one in 10 of our machines. |
07/16/2010
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White House Issues Cybersecurity Report |
| The report notes progress on developing national and international cybersecurity strategies and national cyber incident response plan. |
07/15/2010
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Cyberwar: American spies versus American cops |
| The Wall Street Journal reports, citing unnamed sources, that the NSA is launching a program to help protect critical infrastructure - including private enterprises - from cyber attacks. According to the paper, defense contractor Raytheon has received the |
07/14/2010
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Kaspersky - Brazil, Mexico remain top IT security threats, but attack types seen varying |
| Brazil and Mexico continue to represent the Latin American countries that generate the highest amount of malicious code, but the types of attacks coming from both geographies are seen diverging, Russian antivirus software developer Kaspersky Laboratories' |
07/13/2010
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South Korea to take stab at bot law |
| The South Korean government is preparing draft legislation that would, among other provisions, accord ISPs (Internet service providers) and appointed government agencies the necessary powers to prevent compromised computers from accessing the Internet, ac |
07/12/2010
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S.Korea attacked by reactivated virus |
| South Korean government and private websites have come under cyber-attack a year after a major attack briefly crippled sites domestically and in the United States, officials said on Thursday. |
07/09/2010
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US set to detect infrastructure cyber attacks |
| The US government will set into motion a comprehensive program termed "Perfect Citizen" to detect cyber attacks on private and government agencies running critical infrastructures, reported The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday. |
07/08/2010
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The threat from the internet |
| It is time for countries to start talking about arms control on the internet |
07/07/2010
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War in the fifth domain |
| Are the mouse and keyboard the new weapons of conflict? |
07/06/2010
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North Korea off hook for 4 July cyberattacks |
| Experts still baffled by 2009 DDoS |
07/02/2010
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Another Take On The Cyberwar Threat |
| While the scope of the threat is disputed by many experts, there are enough credible examples of Internet attacks and sabotaged software to raise eyebrows. |
07/01/2010
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Moore's Outlaws: Cyber attacks increasing exponentially |
| Cyber attacks are increasing exponentially. Here's what recent episodes can teach us about thwarting cyber crime, espionage, and warfare. |
06/30/2010
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YouTube used to showcase DDoS software |
| Legitimate businesses use all that the Internet offers to make their sales go up. And even though the use of social media tools can affect office productivity and be an entry point for online attacks, a smart company leadership will find a way to minimize |
06/29/2010
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IT pros: most senior execs are ignorant about cyberattacks |
| LastWatchdog has just gotten an exclusive sneak peak at the results of a NetWitness/Ponemon survey, due out next week. The survey of IT professionals who toil at big organizations reveals the extent to which CEOs, COOs and CFOs behave like ostriches, when |
06/28/2010
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Aussies: Get a virus, no Web for you! |
| How do you deal with an epidemic like the spread of computer malware? Australia thinks it has the answer: Blame the victim. |
06/25/2010
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Obama internet 'kill switch' bill approved |
| The US senators pushing a controversial new bill that some fear would give President Barack Obama the powers to seize control of and even shut down the internet have rejected claims it would give Obama a net "kill switch". |
06/24/2010
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Mobile botnets: an economic and technological assessment |
| In a number of markets, mobiles seem poised to overtake desktop and laptop computers as the preferred way of connecting to the internet. As with all technology, popularity can be a driver for new functionality and business value. When this leads to new te |
06/23/2010
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Why Estonia Is the Poster Child for Cyber-Security |
| I'm just back from a conference on cyber security held in Estonia, or, as the editors always force me to write: "the tiny Baltic nation of Estonia." Other popular tropes: "in Estonia, more than 90 percent of all banking is done online, digital signatures |
06/22/2010
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FBI Warns of 'Telephone Denial-of-Service' Attacks |
| It's annoying, no doubt. But it could be more than that - it could be a sign that you're being victimized by the latest scam making the rounds. This "telephone denial-of-service attack" could be the precursor to a crime targeting your bank accounts, the F |
06/16/2010
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Lynn: Cyber Attack Would Affect U.S., Canadian Links |
| The links between the United States and Canada are so strong that a cyber attack on one would be felt within milliseconds by the other, and both countries must work together to improve cybersecurity, the deputy defense secretary said here today. |
06/15/2010
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South Korea Says Cyber Attacks Came From China Sites |
| Adds tension over ship sinking in fourth paragraph, details of earlier cyber-attacks from 10th. |
06/14/2010
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Hackers Devise More-And-More Sophisticated Attacks |
| Stefan Tanase, Senior Security Researcher at Kaspersky Labs, during a lecture at the Security Analyst Summit of Kaspersky Labs in Cyprus said that cyber assaults based on social engineering tactics were mostly successful. The reason for their success is t |
06/11/2010
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Apple's Worst Security Breach: 114,000 iPad Owners Exposed |
| Apple has suffered another embarrassment. A security breach has exposed iPad owners including dozens of CEOs, military officials, and top politicians. They - and every other buyer of the cellular-enabled tablet - could be vulnerable to spam marketing and |
06/10/2010
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In Debate, Audience Finds That The Cyberwar Threat Is Not Exaggerated |
| Though hype abounds, the potential for damage from international cyber conflicts is real, experts say |
06/09/2010
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Does Averting Cyberwar Mean Giving Up Web Privacy? |
| The old challenge of providing public safety while also protecting civil liberties has found a new manifestation in the cyber age. |
06/08/2010
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U.S. Backs Talks on Cyber Warfare |
| The chief of the Pentagon's new cyber-security command on Thursday endorsed talks with Russia over a proposal to limit military attacks in cyberspace, representing a significant shift in U.S. policy. |
06/07/2010
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Cyber Command Chief: Clear Rules Needed to Govern U.S. Cyber Security |
| Gen. Keith Alexander, chief of the U.S. Cyber Command, told an audience the country needs clear rules of engagement to protect cyberspace as the nation confronts emerging threats. |
06/04/2010
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USA tops China as source of malicious servers |
| America has replaced China as the top source of corrupted servers being surreptitiously used by cybercriminals to dish out malicious programs, according to first-quarter findings from Kaspersky Lab. |
06/03/2010
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Could Cyber Terrorists Attack Our Company? |
| Less Than 25% of the Incidents Recorded in the RISI Database Represent Intentional Attacks on Control Systems |
06/02/2010
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House Passes National Defense Authorization Act |
| House Democrats have secured passage of an amendment to the defense authorization bill that would establish a formal cybersecurity office in the White House and update federal compliance requirements for securing electronic data. |
06/01/2010
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Inside a Commercial Chinese DIY DDoS Tool |
| An intriguing blog post taking a look at DDoS from the perspective of DDoS tools. |
05/28/2010
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Into the wicked wide web |
| When that photocopier near your desk bursts into flames after a Chinese cyber-warrior hacks into your office network and causes it to short-circuit and overheat, don't say that Richard Clarke didn't warn you. |
05/27/2010
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Study finds the average price for renting a botnet |
| Based on an experiment conducted by researchers from VeriSign's iDefense Intelligence Operations Team, involving 25 different "rent a botnet/DDoS for hire" underground marketplace propositions, they were able to conclude that the average price for renting |
05/26/2010
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Second man jailed over Scientology DDoS attacks |
| A year and $20,000 down |
05/25/2010
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FTC Permanently Shuts Down Notorious Rogue Internet Service Provider |
| 3FN service specialized in hosting spam-spewing botnets, phishing websites, child pornography, and other illegal, malicious web content. |
05/24/2010
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US appoints first cyber warfare general |
| Pentagon creates specialist online unit to counter cyber attack amid growing fears of militarisation of the internet |
05/21/2010
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FBI Warns on VOIP Attacks |
| I recently heard from Mark Collier, CTO at SecureLogix and one of the industry's security gurus. He pointed me to a recent FBI press release on a growing VOIP-driven security threat: Denial-of-service attacks that are launched as a way of masking separate |
05/20/2010
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Thieves Use a Denial of Services Attacks to Drain Bank Accounts |
| Hackers are now attacking peoples' finances with DoS attacks. |
05/19/2010
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DIY Twitter-Controlled Botnet Kit Spotted in the Wild |
| Commands relayed from Twitter accounts |
05/18/2010
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Security guard admits he hacked hospital PCs |
| Ghost Exodus undone by YouTube vids |
05/17/2010
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Australia protected by anti-DDoS vigilantes |
| Slow moving legislative reform could be hindering our ability to protect against DDoS attacks. According to SecureWorks malware researcher and group member, Joe Stewart, DDoS defenders may face persecution for launching what he says are essential retailia |
05/14/2010
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Texas Man to Plead Guilty to Building Botnet-for-hire |
| A Mesquite, Texas, man is set to plead guilty to training his 22,000-PC botnet on a local ISP -- just to show off its firepower to a potential customer. |
05/13/2010
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Hackers Hijack Web Servers For More Powerful DDoS Attacks |
| Instead of using bot-infected PCs, a new generation of distributed denial of service attacks are leveraging the power of web servers, according to research from security firm Imperva (www.imperva.com) |
05/12/2010
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FBI: New Scam Includes Denial-Of-Service Attacks To Cell Phones & Landlines |
| The scheme is known as telephony denial-of-service (TDOS) and according to several telecommunications companies working with the FBI, there has been a recent surge of these attacks in the past few weeks. The perpetrators are suspected of using automated d |
05/11/2010
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Should a targeted country strike back at the cyber attackers? |
| Should a targeted country retaliate over cyber attacks using kinetic weapons, or offensive cyber warfare capabilities? Common sense says 'yes', the dynamics of cyber warfare say 'think twice' before doing it, or you may easily end up attacking the wrong c |
05/10/2010
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Almost half of digital pollution from China, USA, Russian Federation |
| Geographical analysis shows varying attack vectors |
05/07/2010
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Report: Layer 7 Increasingly Under DDoS Gun |
| A report from the CYBER SECURITY Forum Initiative (CSFI) offers further evidence that botnet herders are getting a bigger bang out of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks by targeting security holes at layer 7, more commonly known as the applicati |
05/06/2010
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VeriSign warns of growing denial-of-service threat |
| Hackers are creating custom attack bots that mimic legitimate traffic |
05/05/2010
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Maryland positions itself as cybersecurity epicenter |
| Becoming the go-to state for anything cyber-related is Maryland's goal. |
05/04/2010
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US Treasury Web sites hacked, serving malware |
| Three Web sites belonging to the U.S. Department of the Treasury have been hacked to attack visitors with malicious software, security vendor AVG says. |
05/03/2010
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Symantec Warns of Cyber Attacks Worse Than Love Bug |
| A decade after the Love Bug virus attacked millions of computers worldwide and put the Philippines in the IT world map in a negative way, computer security experts have noticed that today's computer attacks are more malicious than the original computer se |
04/30/2010
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Texas man to plead guilty to building botnet-for-hire |
| A Mesquite, Texas, man is set to plead guilty to training his 22,000-PC botnet on a local ISP -- just to show off its firepower to a potential customer. |
04/29/2010
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Storm worm returns to internet |
| Security researchers have identified a new version of the Storm worm that plagued the internet three years ago. The new version uses HTTP for command-and-control purposes instead of the original peer-to-peer approach, say reports. |
04/28/2010
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Fact-Checking "Cyberwar" |
| Wired's Ryan Singel has given a read to Cyberwar, the new cybersecurity book by Richard Clarke and Robert Knake. (I picked out a potential example of actual cyberwarfare in a Glenn Reynolds review of the book last week.) |
04/27/2010
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CIA Director tells Cap-to-Cap delegates: Cyber attack could be next "Pearl Harbor" |
| Central Intelligence Agency director Leon Panetta told 300 Sacramento Metro Chamber Cap-to-Cap delegates that the next "Pearl Harbor" is likely to be an attack on the United States' power, financial, military and other Internet systems. |
04/26/2010
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Attack of the Opt-In Botnets |
| What's more devastating than a DDoS attack launched by a botnet? In some cases, that's the DDoS attack launched by the "opt-in botnet" aggregated through a crowdsourcing campaign. |
04/23/2010
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Cyberwar: We Don't Know What It Is Or If We're In One, But... |
| ...we're sure as heck going to spend billions of dollars and set up a military command to deal with it! That is, in short, the state of cybersecurity policy in the United States at the moment. |
04/22/2010
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Mumbai tops bot-hit computers' list |
| According to a report published on Wednesday, of the 62,623 distinct bot infected computers in India, half were in Mumbai. The number of active bots in Mumbai also increased 13 per cent when compared to 2008, according to the Symantec Internet Security Th |
04/21/2010
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Politically Motivated Attacks Could Force Enterprises To Reshape Defenses |
| Targeted attacks could happen to any organization for myriad reasons, report says |
04/20/2010
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Google cyberattack hit password system: report |
| A December cyberattack on Google Inc computers hit the company's password system that millions of people worldwide use to access almost all of the company's Web services, The New York Times said, citing a person with direct knowledge of the investigation. |
04/19/2010
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Almost all Fortune 500 companies show Zeus botnet activity |
| Up to 88% of Fortune 500 companies may have been affected by the Zeus trojan, according to research by RSA's FraudAction Anti-Trojan division, part of EMC. The trojan installs keystroke loggers to steal login credentials to banking, social networking, and |
04/16/2010
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U.S. Claims Right to Return Fire Against Cyber Attacks |
| Just a few days removed from President Obama's historic nuclear disarmament agreement with Russia, the Pentagon today struck a decidedly more retaliatory tone in asserting its right to return fire against cyber-attacks aimed at the U.S. -- even if an atta |
04/15/2010
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In cyberwar, who's in charge? |
| The president for sure, but after that, it's pretty murky |
04/14/2010
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China refutes India cyber attack accusations |
| China on Tuesday refuted a report that said China-based hackers had targeted the Indian government. |
04/13/2010
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GAO: Cybersecurity weak at all federal agencies |
| Federal agencies remain vulnerable to cyber attacks and security breaches. They are not taking the necessary steps to secure Internet connections and computer systems. That's the conclusion in two new reports from the Government Accountability Office. |
04/12/2010
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'Virtual sit-in' tests line between DDoS and free speech |
| A University of California professor who organized a "virtual sit-in" that targeted the university president's website has been told he may face criminal charges for mounting a distributed denial of service attack. |
04/09/2010
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Report: Federal IT professionals fear cyberattack imminent |
| More than seven in 10 federal IT professionals believe a foreign country will launch a cyberattack on the U.S. |
04/08/2010
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Vietnam Denies Google's Hacking Charges |
| A Vietnamese official has shot back at the claims by Google and McAfee of a widespread malware attack targeting dissidents protesting mining operations in that country. |
04/07/2010
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Is the U.S. the nation most vulnerable to cyberattack? |
| Ex-presidential advisor Richard Clarke warns cyberattacks could lead to more traditional combat |
04/06/2010
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Vietnam govt accused of cyberattacks |
| The Vietnamese government dismissed what it called "groundless" accusations that it was involved in recent cyberattacks used to intimidate opponents of a mining project in Vietnam. |
04/05/2010
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'Cyber Attack' Aimed At Texas Electricity Provider |
| Local 2 Investigates has uncovered details about a so-called "cyber attack" on one of Texas' largest electricity providers, KPRC Local 2 reported Saturday. A confidential e-mail obtained by Local 2 explains a "single IP address in China" tried 4,800 times |
04/02/2010
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Conficker Botnet 'Dead In the Water,' Researcher Says |
| After over a year of waiting for the sleeping giant Conficker botnet to come to life, some security researchers are now starting to think it may just be dead rather than dormant: they say the original creators of the Conficker botnet appear to have abando |
04/01/2010
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DDoS attacks should be 'top priority' for website owners |
| Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are a major reason for businesses adopting website monitoring and other preventative techniques to ensure the smooth running of online resources, it has been said. |
03/31/2010
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Viatnamese dissidents targeted by botneck attacks |
| Cyberattacks were recently used to intimidate opponents of a mining project in Vietnam with ties to China, according to Google and McAfee. |
03/29/2010
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Researchers tracking zombie computers |
| CRIMINALS who hide in the internet's shadows to launch cyber attacks through legions of compromised computers, or zombies, may be caught by traceback tools being developed locally. |
03/26/2010
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Firefox, IE8, Safari and iPhone overcome on day one of Pwn2Own |
| Only Google Chrome was left standing at the Pwn2Own 2010 hacking contest this week, the annual contest organized and sponsored by security company TippingPoint. |
03/25/2010
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Inside a global cybercrime ring |
| Hundreds of computer geeks, most of them students putting themselves through college, crammed into three floors of an office building in an industrial section of Ukraine's capital Kiev, churning out code at a frenzied pace. They were creating some of the |
03/24/2010
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Expert says Canada not Ready for Giant Cyber-Attack |
| According to a leading security expert, Canada is not prepared for an enormous cyber-attack, which is feasible by any ordinary hacker and can handicap the business of the country tremendously. |
03/23/2010
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Symantec names riskiest U.S. cities for cybercrime |
| Seattle No. 1, Boston, DC, San Francisco, Raleigh round out top five |
03/12/2010
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Estonian DDoS revenge worm crafter jailed |
| An Estonian virus writer has been jailed for two and a half years for creating a Windows worm family that launched denial of service attacks on the websites of a local insurance firm and ISP. |
03/11/2010
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Zeus botnet dealt a blow as ISP Troyak knocked out |
| 90 of 249 Zeus command-and-control servers were knocked offline overnight |
03/10/2010
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Fighting Bots is Everybody's Business |
| Every day brings another stunning story about cybercriminals using botnets to hijack and control computers in order to steal data and pull off other online crimes. Last week, Spanish authorities announced they had arrested three men allegedly involved wit |
03/09/2010
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Ubisoft undone by anti-DRM DDoS storm |
| After negative press over a new-age DRM scheme applied to all of its games, Ubisoft came under a DDoS-protest attack this past weekend where hackers brought down Ubisoft DRM servers, rendering many legitimately-purchased copies of Ubisoft games unplayable |
03/08/2010
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Cyberwar declared as China hunts for the West's intelligence secrets |
| It is estimated that in the past year the number of attacks on US government agencies rose to 1.6 billion per month. Systems in the EU are even more vulnerable. |
03/05/2010
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Police arrest Mariposa botnet masters, 12M+ hosts compromised |
| According to a statement published by the Spanish Ministry of Interior, the botnet masters behind a 12M+ infected hosts botnet dubbed Mariposa, were arrested in a cooperative effort between law enforcement, security vendors and the academic community. |
03/04/2010
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Is Your PC Part of a Botnet? |
| Being part of a botnet is no fun. Your computer becomes your worst enemy, watching everything you do, collecting all of your secrets, and then delivering all that data to the bot-herder; the person who originated the network. But what does it really mean |
03/03/2010
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Automated Response Needed for Cyber Attack, Napolitano Will Say |
| U.S. government and businesses should focus on developing new devices for authenticating computer users and automate responses to cyber attacks to bolster Internet security, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano will say in a speech today. |
03/02/2010
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Cyberwar Hype Intended to Destroy the Open Internet |
| The biggest threat to the open internet is not Chinese government hackers or greedy anti-net-neutrality ISPs, it's Michael McConnell, the former director of national intelligence. |
03/01/2010
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Coming to Grips With the Growing Cyber Threat |
| It is almost impossible to understand the dangers that face our military, government, business and personal computer networks without being a high-level cyber security expert. |
02/26/2010
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Cyber Problems Will Remain Says Northrop Grumman's Bob Brammer |
| Cyber Problems Will Remain Says Northrop Grumman's Bob Brammer |
02/25/2010
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Former Intelligence Chief: U.S. Would Lose Cyberwar |
| The risk of a catastrophic cyberattack is approaching the gravity of the nuclear risk, according to the Bush administration's top spy.
"The cyber risk has become so important that, in my view, it rivals nuclear weapons in terms of seriousness," Michael |
02/24/2010
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PushDo botnet launches web attacks |
| Also called "Cutwail" and "Pandex", the PushDo botnet has sprung to life over the past few days and begun to launch DoS attacks on several websites. |
02/23/2010
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75% of firms have experienced a cyber attack |
| Over a third said the attack was highly effective |
02/22/2010
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Cyber attacks will 'catastrophically' spook public, warns GCHQ |
| Exclusive A digital attack against the UK causing even minor damage would have a "catastrophic" effect on public confidence in the government, GCHQ has privately warned Whitehall. |
02/19/2010
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Two Chinese schools implicated in Google Aurora attacks |
| Two Chinese schools with links to the armed forces have become implicated as suspects in the ongoing Operations Aurora attacks against Google and at least 33 other western conglomerates last December. |
02/18/2010
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Virus has breached 75,000 computers: study |
| The Kneber botnet is growing -- though currently focused on stealing information, it may become a DDoS threat in the future. |
02/17/2010
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Botnets Blamed for Big Rise in Email Malware |
| Far from being single-purpose, the networks of malicious machines used in DDoS attacks are also a big player in the rise of Email Malware... |
02/16/2010
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Simulated hacker attack to test US government response |
| Cyber ShockWave involves former administration staff, national security officials |
02/15/2010
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Anonymous: Attacks better than signing petition |
| After the high profile attacks on websites belonging to Australian parlaiment, intended to bring awareness to censorship laws in Australia, a spokesperson for the group claiming responsibility discusses the use of DDoS as a means of protest. |
02/05/2010
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Wallstreet Journal: Who Should Be in Charge of Cybersecurity? |
| Bruce Schneier debates who should be in charge of the US's cybersecurity initiatives |
02/04/2010
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Google to enlist NSA to help it ward off cyberattacks |
| In response to the recently highly publicized attacks, Google is enlisting the help of the NSA to take bold new steps in the defense of cyberattacks. |
02/03/2010
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Botnet targets major Web sites with junk SSL connections |
| The aim of the odd attack is unknown but it's not knocking the sites offline, the Shadowserver Foundation says |
02/02/2010
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China takes steps to toughen hacking laws |
| Under increased scrutiny due to last month's highly publicized attacks on several websites, most notably Google, China is taking big steps to strengthen its Cybercrime laws. |
