Dutch Authorities Knock Out Grum Botnet C&C Servers

Dutch authorities have knocked out two of the command-and-control servers for one of the top spam-producing botnets, known as Grum. The action was not a complete knockout though, as there are still two other C&C servers at work, but researchers are optimistic that the volume of spam will drop as ...

Dutch Government Asks for €8.7 to Reimburse Diginotar Debacle

The Dutch government has asked DigiNotar, the Dutch certificate authority that was broken into last summer, for €8.7 million $11M USD to recoup money it spent buying new certificates, according to several Dutch news reports. The Dutch interior ministry asked for €1 million in January, yet the...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-1197-7)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2012 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Pastebin Downed By Second DDoS Attack This Week

For the second time this week, Pastebin.com on Thursday found itself hit by a distributed denial-of-service DDoS attack. The site was previously taken offline for a portion of the day on Tuesday, though no motives or culprits for that attack have been named yet. A post to the service’s Twitter...

Site of Dutch CA Gemnet Offline After Web Server Attack

Another certificate authority in The Netherlands has been hacked, though this time the attack does not appear to have affected the certificate-issuing operations of Gemnet, a subsidiary of KPN. The company, which does business with the Dutch government among other organizations, said it has taken...

Another Dutch CA, KPN, Stops Issuing Certificates After Finding DDoS Tool On Server

Another Dutch certificate authority, KPN, has stopped issuing digital certificates after finding attack tools on a server in its Web infrastructures. The CA said that while it doesn’t have evidence right now that it’s CA infrastructure was compromised, it is taking the actions as a precaution. Th...

Interview: Crypto Legend Ron Rivest On Fixing SSL, APTs and The Future Of Security

One of the biggest talks at this year’s Black Hat Briefings was a presentation on the structural problem with digital certificate authorities by Moxie Marlinspike. The subsequent hack of Dutch certificate authority DigiNotar and a damning report on that attack only weeks later, and more recent...

Dutch Government Sets Sept. 28 Kill Date for DigiNotar Certs

Adobe said on Friday that its products would soon reject certificates issued by the disgraced Dutch certificate authority DigiNotar following the Dutch government’s decision, Friday, to revoke DigiNotar PKIoverheid CA certificates used by government agencies on September 28. The news sets an...

Dutch Regulator Bars DigiNotar From Issuing Qualified Certificates

A Dutch agency that regulates the actions of telecommunications providers has revoked DigiNotar’s ability to issue certificates for digital signatures. The agency said that because of the way that DigiNotar behaved during the attack on its certificate authority infrastructure, the company no long...

Adobe Set to Patch Critical Reader and Acrobat Vulnerabilities

Adobe is set to release “critical” security updates on a number of their products on Tuesday as part of their monthly patch update to fix critical vulnerabilities in Adobe Reader and Acrobat. In an early notification, Adobe said it would release critical updates for a wide range of versions of...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-1197-4)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2011 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Debian DSA-2307-1 : chromium-browser - several vulnerabilities

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in the Chromium browser. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CVE-2011-2818 Use-after-free vulnerability in Google Chrome allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified oth...

Comodo Hacker Claims Credit for DigiNotar Attack

The same attacker who claimed to have compromised Comodo in March is now claiming responsibility for the attack on DigiNotar, the Dutch certificate authority that issued fraudulent certificates for several hundred domains in he last few weeks, including Google, Yahoo, Mozilla Add-Ons and several...

Anonymous leaks Nimbuzz data for collusion with pro-censorship governments

Anonymous leaks Nimbuzz data for collusion with pro-censorship governments Anonymous Hackers leaks Nimbuzz data via the twitter account of AnonymousIRC which included a link to their latest leak from Nimbuzz . About thirty minutes later, that twitter account posted a link for download named...

Netherlands-based Rabobank down under DDoS attack !

Netherlands-based Rabobank down under DDoS attack ! The internet and mobile banking services of Netherlands-based Rabobank were crippled by a distributed denial of service attack yesterday. The attack sent the banking services offline but did not affect Australian operations, according to the ban...

Microsoft Builds Legal Weapon to Take Apart Botnets

The take-down of the Rustock botnet in March gave Microsoft another head for its mantle: two in just the last year. That’s an impressive take for any private firm, and one of a string of actions against bot networks in recent years. But security experts say that the company’s success in building ...

Bredolab: October, 2010

At its height, the Bredolab botnet numbered more than three million hosts and was responsible for 30 million infections and 3.6 billion spam e-mails daily.The global botnet was brought down by the Dutch cyber crime unit, which seized the command and control infrastructure used by the botnet and,...

WiFi Hacking Is Now Legal in Dutch !

Breaking in to an encrypted router and using the WiFi connection is not an criminal offence, a Dutch court ruled. WiFi hackers can not be prosecuted for breaching router security. A court in The Hague ruled earlier this month that it is legal to break WiFi security to use the internet connection...

Message Released from Anonymous Hackers to Royal Dutch Shell !

Message Released from Anonymous Hackers to Royal Dutch Shell ! Anonymous Hackers just now upload a Video on Youtube to give a Message to 'Royal Dutch Shell'.. Have a look : Link :...

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...