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...

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...

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...

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...

Wikileaks, Dodging DDoS, Bounces Back to Amazon

The Web site of Wikileaks was moving quickly to stay out of the way of large scale denial of service attacks on Sunday and Monday, following the release of a trove of sensitive U.S. diplomatic cables. The controversial site, which has spent months trying to find a home secure from government...

Attacks Drive South Korea to Install DDoS Bunkers

In hopes of combating ongoing distributed-denial-of-service DDoS attacks, South Korea recently erected digital “bunkers” throughout their networks, according to a post on ZDNet’s Australian site. Created to help smaller businesses too poor to defend themselves, the “bunkers” are providing tempora...

CVE-2010-2362

Winny 2.0b7.1 and earlier does not properly process node information, which has unspecified impact and remote attack vectors that might lead to use of the product's host for DDoS attacks...

CVE-2010-2362

Winny 2.0b7.1 and earlier does not properly process node information, which has unspecified impact and remote attack vectors that might lead to use of the product's host for DDoS attacks...

JVN#54336184: Winny BBS information processing vulnerability

Winny is a P2P file sharing software. Winny contains a vulnerability in the processing of BBS information, which can be used to launch Distributed Denial of Service DDoS attacks. Impact A user may take part in a DDoS attack by a remote attacker. Solution Do not use Winny Please discontinue use of...

Блогер cyxymu потребовал от Медведева разобраться с хакерами

Блогер cyxymu потребовал от Медведева разобраться с хакерами Блогер cyxymu http://cyxymu.livejournal.com/ 10 августа обратился к президенту России Дмитрию Медведеву с просьбой найти организаторов DDoS-атак на ресурсы Twitter, LiveJournal и Facebook. Cyxymu предложил президенту использовать для...

Researchers Demo DDoS Attacks in the Cloud

Researchers at Def Con created a handful of virtual server instances on Amazon’s EC2 and used a homemade program to attack the network of a client — a small business that wanted its connectivity tested. They took the company off the Internet. The price? Six dollars. Read the full article. Dark...

Jose Nazario on Politically Motivated DDoS Attacks (Part 3)

In the third part of his talk on politically motivated DDoS attacks at the recent Kaspersky Lab Security Analyst Summit, Jose Nazario of Arbor Networks discusses the tactics and motivations for these attacks...

Jose Nazario on Politically Motivated DDoS Attacks (Part 2)

In the second part of his discussion on DDoS attacks at the Kaspersky Lab Security Analyst Summit in Cyprus, Jose Nazario of Arbor Networks delves into some of the statistics he has compiled on these attacks...

Jose Nazario on Politically Motivated DDoS Attacks (Part 1)

Jose Nazario of Arbor Networks gives a talk at the Kaspersky Lab Security Analyst Summit in Cyprus about the hype around cyberwar and the roots of politically motivated DDoS attacks and what they mean in today’s climate...

DDoS Suspect Who Caused Conservative Havoc Charged

Federal prosecutors have accused a man of carrying out a series of botnet offenses including attacks that brought down the websites of conservative talking heads Bill O’Reilly, Ann Coulter and Rudolph Giuliani. Read the full article. The Register...