Microsoft Names Two Alleged Zeus Botnet Operators

Three months after initially disrupting the Zeus botnet, Microsoft officials have named two of the people who they think are behind the malware network, a pair of Ukrainians who already are sitting in jail in the UK. From the beginning of the anti-Zeus operation, which became public in March,...

Indian ISPs get court relief, Torrent Sites Unblocked

Indian ISPs get court relief, Torrent Sites Unblocked After weeks of confusion and frustration with blocked websites, the mess finally looks to be clearing. Indians are all heaving a sigh of relief because their ISPs have unblocked the access to the file-sharing, video-streaming BitTorrent sites...

ISPA to launch cyber security code of practice in SA

ISPA to launch cyber security code of practice in SA South Africa's Internet Service Providers' Association ISPA has teamed with Australia's Internet Industry Association to develop a new voluntary industry code of practice to improve cybersecurity for end users. Known as the 'icode', and develop...

ISPs Signal Support For Anti-Bot Code Of Conduct

The U.S.’s leading Internet Service Providers signed on to a new Federal Communications Commission code of conduct to limit the impact of major cyber security threats including botnets, attacks on the Domain Name System DNS and Internet routing attacks. AT&T, CenturyLink, Comcast, Cox, Sprint, Ti...

Hawaii Bill Would Require Internet Data Retention For Two Years

A Hawaiian legislator has introduced a broadly worded data-retention bill that require ISPs and other service providers to retain their customers’ Internet activity records for at least two years. The bill, introduced by state Rep. John Mizuno, does not have any provisions for exclusions or priva...

Microsoft launching Real Time Hosted Threat Intelligence Feed

Microsoft launching Real Time Hosted Threat Intelligence Feed Microsoft is to offer a real-time intelligence feed of botnet and e-crime data to public and private sector subscribers, according to security company Kaspersky. Currently, Microsoft is testing a real-time feed to distribute informatio...

Major DNS Cache Poisoning Attack Hits Brazilian ISPs

There is a large-scale DNS cache-poisoning attack going on in Brazil at the moment, with potentially millions of users affected by a tactic that is forcing the to install a malicious Java applet before they can reach many popular sites, including Google, Gmail and Hotmail. The attack has been goi...

NSA Director Says U.S. Working to Push Attack Data to ISPs

WASHINGTON–The commander of the U.S. Cyber Command said that the federal government is working on a system now that would allow it to work with ISPs and others to help stop ongoing attacks against government and private networks by pushing intelligence and attack signatures to them. Gen. Keith...

Sagem Router Fast 330434643504 - Telnet Authentication Bypass

Sagem Router Fast 330434643504 - Telnet Authentication Bypass !/home/bin/python Remote Exploit: SAGEM ROUTER FAST 3304/3464/3504 - Telnet Authentication bypass Date: 15-August-2011 Author: Elouafiq Ali Version: 3304-V1 / 3304-V2 / 3464 / 3504 Tested on: Linux Ubuntu 11.04, Linux Backtrack 5 Teste...

House Committee Passes Bill to Force ISPs to Retain User Data For 12 Months

A controversial bill that would force ISPs to retain records for up to 12 months that would allow them to identify users by IP address has cleared a key hurdle and passed the House Judiciary Committee by a wide margin, setting it up for passage by the full House. The bill was introduced with the...

ISP Outage, Not Hackers, Take Down MasterCard's Site

UPDATE: An Internet Service Provider outage, not hackers, was to blame for the unavailability of MasterCard’s website early Tuesday morning according to a statement from a company spokesman. “We can confirm that MasterCard’s corporate, public-facing website experienced intermittent service...

Vulnerabilities in ADSL modem Callisto 821+

Hello 3APA3A! I want to warn you about security vulnerabilities in ADSL modem Callisto 821+ SI2000 Callisto821+ Router. These are Predictable Resource Location and Brute Force vulnerabilities. Predictable Resource Location WASC-34: http://192.168.1.1 web server on 80 and 8008 ports. The control...

Coreflood Takedown Raises Questions About Offensive Actions Against Botnets

For just about as long as there have been botnets, there’s been an ongoing discussion in the security and law-enforcement communities about the legality and ethics of taking proactive steps to disrupt the botnets’ operations and even to remove the bots from infected machines. Until very recently,...

Europe's Cybersecurity Agency Gears Up for War on Botnets !

The European Network and Information Security Agency ENISA, Europe's Cyber security agency, issued a report focused on botnets this week titled, "Botnets: Measurement, Detection, Disinfection and Defence." The report discusses the reliability of botnet size estimates and provides recommendations...

Europe prepares for war with botnets !

EU cyber security agency ENISA has warned that ISPs, end users and governments all have a role to play in stopping the global menace of botnet-related cyber crime. Botnets, such as the one that uses the infamous Zeus malware to infect machines, are growing in scope and scale, and ENISA has releas...

Vodafone Network Seized by Egyptian Authorities to Spread Propaganda Via Text Message

Vodafone released a statement yesterday confirming that the authorities in Egypt seized their network to send propaganda text messages to the Egyptian people. Such text messages have been sent since the start of the protests in an attempt to cool tensions among the protestors who are demanding th...

Egypt Back Online

After almost a week without Internet access, Egypt blinked back online Wednesday, according to report published by Renesys. As of one PM Wednesday, Cairo time, the country’s main Internet Service Providers ISPs appear to have restored their service, providing Net access to the strife torn middle...

FBI raids ISP in Anonymous DDoS investigation !

Authorities in the U.S. and Germany have raided Internet Service Providers in hopes of tracking down the hackers who launched distributed denial of service DDoS attacks against Web sites such as Visa.com, PayPal.com, and Mastercard.com earlier this month. In documents posted Wednesday to the...

Thai Netizen Network calls for review of cybercrime laws !

The Thai Netizen Network has issued a statement calling for a review of Thai cybercrime laws in light of curbs on free speech and has issued a book for netizens to help them safeguard their privacy and circumvent censorship at the same time. Supinya Klangnarong, co-ordinator of the Thai Netizen...

Report: FCC May Push ISPs To Crack Down on Botnets

We’ve known for a long time that botnets are the Madwoman in the Attic at most major Internet service providers ISPs- an unseemly and occasionally embarrassing presence that is occasionally dealt with, but usually silently tolerated. But now, it seems, there’s pressure mounting on ISPs to do...