Internet registrar Register.com has infrastructure down for nearly 24 hours impacting their DNS, hosting and webmail clients. ” IMPORTANT NOTICE: 9:30 AM, Saturday, November,13th – On Friday, November 12th we were hit by a distributed denial of service attack (ddos). We are actively working to mitigate the attack and restore services as soon as possible. [...]
“For 18 minutes in April, China’s state-controlled telecommunications company hijacked 15 percent of the world’s Internet traffic, including data from U.S. military, civilian organizations and those of other U.S. allies. This massive redirection of data has received scant attention in the mainstream media because the mechanics of how the hijacking was carried out and the [...]
“The Defense Department declaring that it will only be responsible for protecting its own computer networks and that the private sector must fend for itself would be like telling U.S. Steel in Pittsburgh that an air assault is coming and it must go out and buy its own fighter jets and antiaircraft guns. So said [...]
“Spam volumes fell in the third quarter thanks to some massive botnets being shut down, but the problem remains severe. Both Symantec and Kaspersky have noted the spam decline, with the former finding October volumes went down 47 per cent when compared to August. Kaspersky figures showed a decline in the third quarter when compared [...]
“Cyber criminals are mounting an all-out attack on businesses, which is likely to continue, according to the Websense 2010 Threat Report. The report shows that in the past year, 52% of data-stealing attacks were conducted over the Web, 9% of data stealing attacks happened over e-mail, and 90% of all unwanted e-mails contained links to [...]
“The personal information of thousands of federal workers is at risk after a General Services Administration worker mistakenly sent the names and Social Security numbers of all of the agency’s 12,000 employees to a private e-mail account. The incident occurred Sept. 16, and GSA security officials learned about it Sept. 22 in a weekly e-mail [...]
“An exploit of an unpatched Internet Explorer vulnerability has been added to a popular crimeware kit, a move that will probably push Microsoft to fix the flaw with an emergency update, a security researcher said Sunday. Meanwhile, a prominent vulnerability expert has sided with Microsoft, which has said the bug will be difficult to exploit [...]
“The Royal Navy’s website was suspended today after being hacked into over the weekend. A Romanian hacker operating under the name TinKode claimed to have breached security on the site on Friday night. In a blogpost on Saturday he provided details of the hack, together with names and passwords of users. The hack text concluded [...]
“Details about the Stuxnet worm, a highly-engineered piece of malicious software that targeted industrial control systems, have trickled out since it made international news earlier this fall. The sophistication of the malware combined with its ability to target the controllers that run power plants and other infrastructure facilities impressed many security experts. At a small [...]
“The Asian nation of Myanmar, still widely known as Burma, has been virtually taken of the Net by a sustained attack of unknonw origin. Acording to analysis by Arbor Networks the cyber-warfare attack, which centred on the main Myanmar internet provider, the state-owned Ministry of Post and Telecommunications (PTT), has been going for several days [...]
