Killapache: DDOS tool - Half of the Internet is vulnerable now !

Killapache: DDOS tool - Half of the Internet is vulnerable now ! The Apache Software Foundation has announced a denial-of-service vulnerability that affects all versions of the ubiquitous Apache web server, leaving up to 65% of all websites vulnerable. A unknown flaw in the code for processing...

Dirt Jumper Caught in the Act

In late July 2011, a specific piece of malware came to our attention. Analysis revealed that this particular piece of malware was launching DDoS attacks and we have direct evidence of DDoS attack on two Russian websites. One of these was a gaming website, the other involved in selling a popular...

DDoS Attack Forces Hong Kong Exchange Site Offline for Second Day

Trading on Hong Kong’s stock market, Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing, remains suspended today following a “coordinated and sustained” distributed denial of service attack on one of the exchange’s websites Wednesday. Several companies, including HSBC, China Power International and Cathay Pacific...

British police issue warning to Anonymous, Lulzsec and other internet hacktivists

British police issue warning to Anonymous, Lulzsec and other internet hacktivists The Metropolitan Police have taken the unusual step of using Twitter to send a message to anyone considering supporting internet attacks against companies and governments.A message posted on the Met Police's officia...

PythonLOIC - Python Low Orbit Ion Cannon Ddos Tool Released

PythonLOIC - Python Low Orbit Ion Cannon Ddos Tool Released Low Orbit Ion Cannon for all platforms to test the resistance of the server or ddos servers. Presentation of pythonloic running on iphone os: Download PythonLOIC...

PythonLOIC - Python Low Orbit Ion Cannon Ddos Tool Released

PythonLOIC - Python Low Orbit Ion Cannon Ddos Tool Released Low Orbit Ion Cannon for all platforms to test the resistance of the server or ddos servers. Presentation of pythonloic running on iphone os: Download PythonLOIC...

Teens, Lulz and Morality: Making Sense of Anonymous

The UK’s Metropolitan Police swooped down on the remote, weather beaten Shetland Islands last week to arrrest what the authorities claim is a top ranking member of the international hacker collective Anonymous, which has been terrorizing governments and high profile corporations for most of the...

Facebook Launches Bug Bounty Program

Social networking giant Facebook has finally boarded the bug bounty bandwagon. The company announced late last week they’ll award $500 for each bug to those who share information about flaws that could compromise the site’s privacy. The news confirms rumors that began to bubble at a Hack in the B...

#RefRef - Denial of Service ( DDoS ) Tool Developed by Anonymous

RefRef - Denial of Service DDoS Tool Developed by Anonymous Anonymous is developing a new DDoS tool which is said to exploit SQL vulnerabilities to support the group's future campaigns. So far, what they have is something that is platform neutral, leveraging JavaScript and vulnerabilities within...

#RefRef - Denial of Service ( DDoS ) Tool Developed by Anonymous

RefRef - Denial of Service DDoS Tool Developed by Anonymous Anonymous is developing a new DDoS tool which is said to exploit SQL vulnerabilities to support the group's future campaigns. So far, what they have is something that is platform neutral, leveraging JavaScript and vulnerabilities within...

Paypal gives FBI the list of IP Address of 1,000 Anomymous hackers

Paypal gives FBI the list of IP Address of 1,000 Anomymous hackers Paypal collected 1000 IP addresses of those carrying out Anonymous' DDoS attacks against PayPal last December. To be fair the names on the list will probably be the bottom feeding script kiddies rather than the hackers at the top ...

Paypal gives FBI the list of IP Address of 1,000 Anomymous hackers

Paypal gives FBI the list of IP Address of 1,000 Anomymous hackers Paypal collected 1000 IP addresses of those carrying out Anonymous' DDoS attacks against PayPal last December. To be fair the names on the list will probably be the bottom feeding script kiddies rather than the hackers at the top ...

How Did One Of The World's Poorer Countries Become its Top Source of Online Attacks?

What country serves up the biggest share of online attacks? The U.S., you say? It’s the world’s largest and most advanced economy. China maybe? Its growing fast, with billions of citizens and hundreds of millions of Internet users. How about Russia? Try Myanmar. The southeast Asian country that’s...

Operation Intifada: Anonymous Prepares For DDOS Attack On Israel Parliament

Operation Intifada: Anonymous Prepares For DDOS Attack On Israel Parliament The latest target of Operation Anonymous, which following the dissolution of LulzSec is the last substantial non-amorphous hacker collective left out there, could lead to some substantial geopolitical fallout. That is...

Operation Intifada: Anonymous Prepares For DDOS Attack On Israel Parliament

Operation Intifada: Anonymous Prepares For DDOS Attack On Israel Parliament The latest target of Operation Anonymous, which following the dissolution of LulzSec is the last substantial non-amorphous hacker collective left out there, could lead to some substantial geopolitical fallout. That is...

Alleged Anonymous Member Faces Internet Ban, Monitoring Software

The U.S. Government is demanding that an alleged member of the online hacking group Anonymous be banned from using the Internet as a condition of his release, but won’t require him to run FBI monitoring software on his computers, saying the monitoring wasn’t enforceable. In a motion filed on July...

FBI Arrests, Searches Do Little to Quiet Anonymous

ED: FBI Arrests, Searches Do Little to Quiet Anonymous DEK: There are more questions than answers two days after a spate of arrests of alleged members of the group Anonymous, with the group’s core leadership escaping attention. Was the arrest of more than a dozen members of the group Anonymous a...

Anonymous Claims Hack of NATO, Sends Warning to FBI

The Internet hacker collective Anonymous claims to have breached the security of NATO’s computer network and made off with roughly a gigabyte of “restricted material,” according to a message posted from a Twitter account belonging to the group. Anonymous released two NATO documents in PDF form,...

FBI Raids New York Homes of Suspected Anonymous Members

Agents of the FBI raided three homes in New York on Tuesday and seized computers believed to be involved in recent attacks by the Anonymous hacking group. FBI Agents raided three homes in Brooklyn, Baldwin and Merrick, New York at 6:00 AM, armed with search warrants seeking computers and related...

McAfee Fingers North Korea in Attacks on South Korean Sites

An analysis by anti malware firm McAfee says that attacks against South Korean government and U.S. military Websites most likely came from North Korea. Analysis of the March, 2011 attacks and the malware used to carry them out suggest that the mission was carried out by forces in North Korea in...