Dutch Teens Arrested for Cyberattacks on Mastercard and Visa

A Dutch hacker collective called Revspace aims to "re-educate" Dutch teens suspected of cyberattacks against Mastercard, Visa, and the Dutch National Prosecutors Office, transforming them into "ethical hackers." Last week, Dutch police arrested a 16-year-old boy for participating in web attacks...

Hacking Tool Used By Anonymous Could Reveal Users Identity

A new study finds that a tool used to carry out distributed denial of service DDoS attacks on behalf of whistle blower Web site Wikileaks may, itself, leak the identity of those running the software. Researchers from the University of Twente, Netherlands, looked at the Low Orbit Ion Cannon LOIC, ...

The Case for Enterprise Cyber Ranges

The illustrious op-ed page of the Wall Street Journal featured talk of cyberwar again this week with “How to Fight and Win the Cyberwar.” The piece, written by Mortimer Zuckerman, rehashes some important facts: U.S. critical infrastructure, including the parts of it owned by major enterprises, is...

Second Dutch Teen Arrested Over Pro-WikiLeaks Cyber Attacks

Police in the Netherlands have arrested a second teenager in connection with the pro-WikiLeaks distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks seen earlier this week. The arrest of the 19-year-old man follows Friday's attacks on websites belonging to the Dutch Police and the national prosecutor's...

Anonymous Clarifies Its Identity and Mission in Recent Statement

On December 10, 2010, Anonymous released a press statement to clarify its identity and objectives. Who is Anonymous? Anonymous, often misunderstood, is not a conventional group. Instead, it is an internet gathering without formal structure. Both Anonymous and the media acknowledge the perceived...

Week in Security: More Wikileaks Fallout, Cybersecurity Buzz and Browser Updates

The words “cyber war” were in the headlines this week, as controversy and debate about the leak of confidential diplomatic cables by Wikileaks reached a fever pitch. As speculation turned to the fallout from the ongoing publication of documents, the U.S. government laid the groundwork to prevent...

Dutch Police Arrest 16-Year-Old for Pro-WikiLeaks Cyber Attacks

Dutch authorities announced the arrest of a 16-year-old hacker involved in the pro-WikiLeaks attacks on the websites of MasterCard and PayPal. The Dutch National Prosecutors Office reported that the teen, whose name was not disclosed, was arrested by a high-tech crime team last night. The arrest...

Wikileaks Daily: Sarah Palin!

Perhaps Sarah Palin is the news-world’s equivalent of Fonzie “jumping the shark” – the entertainment industry’s measure of when a show has peaked and, thus, begun an inexorable creative decline. If so, then we might expect coverage and breathless media attention of the ongoing Wikileaks Cablegate...

Twitter Locks Out Wikileaks DDoS Group As Attacks Spread

Twitter has suspended the account used by Anonymous, an umbrella group of online hacker-activists that have claimed responsibility for denial of service DoS attacks on Visa, MasterCard, Paypal and a host of other public and private entities who have taken action against Wikileaks and its founder,...

Wikileaks Daily: Chaos Reigns As Assange Denied Bail

Another day, another flurry of media reports stemming from the ongoing leak of sensitive diplomatic cables by the Website Wikileaks. Reports have surfaced that the group is in disarray now that Wikileaks chief Julian Assange was denied bail by a UK court, even as hacktivists try to take down the...

Wikleaks struggles back online at new Domain/ Web-address !

Wikileaks is struggling to return at a new web address, wikileaks.ch, after hoster EveryDNS.net threw in the towel in the face of a sustained distributed denial of service DDoS attack. This too appears to have gone down intermittently, whether from service overload or a new DDoS. A ping to the...

Wikileaks Roundup: Assange Arrested, Visa, MC Cut Ties

OK. It’s been just over a week since information leaking Web site Wikileaks released the first installment of leaked U.S. diplomatic cables, with each day bringing new documents from the purported hoard of some 250,000 pages, and new developments from a range of very pissed off Western government...

WikiLeaks.org Down After EveryDNS.net Termination Due to DDOS Attacks

WikiLeaks' main website became inaccessible on Friday via its WikiLeaks.org domain after EveryDNS.net, a subsidiary of Dynamic Network Services, terminated its domain name service. EveryDNS.net terminated the WikiLeaks.org domain due to repeated Distributed Denial of Service DDOS attacks. These...

PayPal Drops Wikileaks, Denies DDoS Attack

Paypal confirmed on Monday that it “permanently restricted” the account used by Wikileaks, citing a violation of its Acceptable Use Policy. The action was just the latest by government and private sector organizations in response to the recent publication of leaked diplomatic cables from the U.S...

Researchers Tracking Emerging Darkness Botnet

Researchers are tracking a new botnet that has become one of the more active DDoS networks on the Internet since its emergence early last month. The botnet, dubbed “Darkness,” is being controlled by several domains hosted in Russia and its operators are boasting that it can take down large sites...

Week in Security: Wikileaks Extravaganza, New Ransomware and Open-Source Attacks

It was difficult to go anywhere this week without hearing about the flurry of activity surrounding the Wikileaks data dump. A slew of denial-of-service attacks followed soon after, while new ransomware and attacks on open-source software filled out the rest of the week’s news. Read on for the wee...

Vigilant Hacker-Activist Allegedly Searched and Seized

It is being reported that the internet hacker-activist calling himself the Jester who claimed responsibility for the DDoS attacks on Wikileaks Sunday has been the subject of a search and seizure by local law enforcement officials. The raid reportedly took place Monday according to a blog posted...

Vigilant Hacker-Activist Allegedly Searched and Seized

It is being reported that the internet hacker-activist calling himself the Jester who claimed responsibility for the DDoS attacks on Wikileaks Sunday has been the subject of a search and seizure by local law enforcement officials. The raid reportedly took place Monday according to a blog posted...

Wikileaks Suffers Second DDoS Attack

The Wikileaks Website labored under a massive denial of service attack Tuesday, 48 hours after the site published its first installment of a massive trove of leaked U.S. diplomatic cables. Both Wikileaks.org and cablegate.wikileaks.org, the subdomain created to host the leaked U.S. embassy cables...

Cyber Fraud: Tactics, Techniques and Procedures

Gone are the days when those BlackHat Hackers would tickle you for fun, Now they will poke you & take your diamonds without you even knowing anything about it until it's too late. Landscape in the Cyber underground has completely changed since then, making it more like well organized business...