12-year-old Boy admits to hacking major Government sites for aiding Anonymous Hackers

12-year-old Canadian has pleaded guilty to breaking into multiple major government and police websites in the name of the hacker collective Anonymous. Surprisingly, this Fifth Grade student wreaked computer havoc during the Quebec student uprising in 2012, traded pirated information to Anonymous...

Google Project Shield to Protect Sensitive Sites from DDoS Attacks

DDoS attacks have been a problem for nearly as long as the Internet has been a thing, but they’re difficult to visualize and understand on a practical level. A whole bunch of traffic is going to a Web site. So what? Now, Google and Arbor Networks are collaborating on a project that shows exactly...

DDoS Attacks : A Serious unstoppable menace for IT security communities

It should be the busiest day of the year for your business, but your website has just disappeared off the Internet and orders have dried up. If this happens to you, then you likely just become yet another victim of a distributed denial of service DDoS attack. By now, everyone who uses the Interne...

DDoS Attacks : A Serious unstoppable menace for IT security communities

It should be the busiest day of the year for your business, but your website has just disappeared off the Internet and orders have dried up. If this happens to you, then you likely just become yet another victim of a distributed denial of service DDoS attack. By now, everyone who uses the Interne...

DDoS Attacks, Attacks from Asia/Pacific Up in Q2

Three-quarters of the world’s attack traffic emanates from source IP addresses in Indonesia and China, according to Akamai’s latest quarterly State of the Internet report. The report is a deep dive into traffic trends crossing the Cambridge, Ma.-based company’s network during the second quarter...

Behind the South Korean Government DDoS Attacks

BERLIN–In the last few years, there have been a series of DDoS attacks and intrusions on government networks in South Korea that have resulted in the loss of untold amounts of data. The four attacks haven’t been linked together or attributed to the same attackers, but there are some similarities ...

Vulnerability in USB Internet Modems allows hacker to access Millions of Computers remotely

A USB Internet Modems or Data card, is a type of modem that allows your computer to receive Internet access using USB Port and connect to a GSM/CDMA network there by creating a PPPoE Point to Point protocol over Ethernet interface to your computer. Indian Security Researcher 'Rahul Sasi' found a...

Cybercriminals using hijacked Cloud hosting accounts for targeted attacks

US Cloud hosting providers are constantly targeted by cyber crime according the revelations of two malware researchers Mary Landesman, a senior security researcher at Cisco Systems, and Dave Monnier security expert at Team Cymru explained during the 2013 Gartner Security and Risk Management Summi...

Turkish Government websites hacked by Anonymous, declares #OpTurkey

Internet Activists and Collective Hacker group Anonymous carried out a series of cyber attacks on Turkish government websites in retaliation for violent police response to anti-government protests, launched OpTurkey operation. There are several videos to be seen on YouTube about the protest of...

Turkish Government websites hacked by Anonymous, declares #OpTurkey

Internet Activists and Collective Hacker group Anonymous carried out a series of cyber attacks on Turkish government websites in retaliation for violent police response to anti-government protests, launched OpTurkey operation. There are several videos to be seen on YouTube about the protest of...

Anonymous Hackers Launch #OpUSA against US Banking and Government Agencies

OpUSA campaign is officially started, the day has come, today May 7 as announced by Anonymous, a coordinated online attack will hit Banking and government websites. The announcement made by popular group of hacktivists is creating great concerns between US security experts in charge of defense th...

Anonymous Hackers Launch #OpUSA against US Banking and Government Agencies

OpUSA campaign is officially started, the day has come, today May 7 as announced by Anonymous, a coordinated online attack will hit Banking and government websites. The announcement made by popular group of hacktivists is creating great concerns between US security experts in charge of defense th...

Millions of WordPress sites exploitable for DDoS Attacks using Pingback mechanism

Distributed Denial of Service attacks have increased in scale, intensity and frequency. The wide range of motives for these attacks political , criminal, or social makes every merchant or organization with an online presence a potential target. Over the weekend Incapsula mitigated a unique DDoS...

Who Needs a Botnet when you have a 4 Gbps DDoS Cannon?

In recent months the DDoS world has shifted from complex small scale Botnet attacks to much larger network based DDoS attacks, perpetrated largely by hijacked web servers. How many of these hijacked servers are out there remains to be seen. However, Incapsula recently got a very good idea of just...

Anonymous #OpIsrael, cyber crime and assumptions on state-sponsored interference

Last April 7th the Anonymous collective hit the Israeli networks with a huge as historic offensive, for the first time an independent group of hackers declared war to a Governments to protest against its policy. Many web sites of the country were hit by DDoS attacks, the data on the event reporte...

Anonymous #OpIsrael, cyber crime and assumptions on state-sponsored interference

Last April 7th the Anonymous collective hit the Israeli networks with a huge as historic offensive, for the first time an independent group of hackers declared war to a Governments to protest against its policy. Many web sites of the country were hit by DDoS attacks, the data on the event reporte...

Hackers Using Brute-Force Attacks to Harvest WordPress Sites

Months of distributed denial of service attacks against major U.S. banks have evolved in magnitude and ferocity causing service disruptions for online banking customers. They’ve also shown the way for other attackers to adapt and evolve techniques used in those attacks. Apparently, someone is...

Using Customer Premise Equipment to Take Over the Internet

It’s the ultimate what-if scenario: What if an attacker could own all the customer premises equipment CPE doled out by ISPs such as routers and modems? Would it be trivial with available scanning equipment and other tools to find vulnerable gear, and then modify and re-upload the firmware to be...

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...

Theories Abound on Wiper Malware Attack Against South Korea

Disruptions to businesses in South Korea continue today after hackers used wiper malware to take a number of banks and television networks offline yesterday. A number of financial systems at a half-dozen banks and production systems inside South Korea’s major television networks remain down,...