Ryan Naraine on Virus Bulletin 2013, Zero Days and Cyberwarfare

Dennis Fisher talks with Ryan Naraine about the news from the Virus Bulletin 2013 conference, whether the use of zero days is overrated and the collateral damage that can result from cyberwarfare attacks. Download: digitalunderground128.mp3...

Hollywood wants Right to use Malware to hack the computers of Pirates

In the constant battle between illegal file sharers Pirates and the entertainment industry Hollywood supplying the protected digital materials, the pirates have been staying one step ahead, although the industry may soon have a powerful new weapon in their arsenal. A new report released by the...

Spamhaus DDoS Attacks Triple Size of Attacks on US Banks

So you thought the 100 Gbps distributed denial-of-service attacks against U.S. banks were big? Ongoing attacks against Spamhaus have three times the fury and have affected unrelated online services as collateral damage. Attackers from Dutch webhost Cyberbunker are turning on a firehose of bad...

Cyberwar Name Game a Dangerous Play

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – The term “cyberwar” is the “zero day” of security jargon; it’s getting so that every bug is a zero day and every attack is hash-tagged cyberwar. This serves only to distract smart people from making smart decisions. Too much brainpower and bandwidth is being wasted on...

Wikileaks

As lore and Bradley Manning’s own accounts have it, the one-time Intelligence analyst and recently demoted Pfc. walked into a forward operating base near Baghdad with a blank disc that he had cleverly disguised as a Lady Gaga CD and proceeded to download a treasure trove of diplomatic cables of...