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• Is There a Windows 7 Zero-Day Exploit?

  
  Security Watch — Authority: 557
  Many reports are circulating calling the vulnerability revealed yesterday in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 a "zero-day exploit." This is a poor use of the term and an exaggeration."Zero-Day" is a controversial term in any case, but it refers to actual attacks, not to vulnerability disclosures. The report ...
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• SMB2 Exploit Provides Remote DOS Attack Against Windows 7

  
  Security Watch — Authority: 557
  A researcher has disclosed a remotely-exploitable crash bug in the most recent versions of Windows , Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. Older versions of Windows, including XP, Vista and Server 2003, are not affected.A malformed netbios packet, sent over the local network, causes the network code in Windows to go ...
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• How to DDOS a federal wiretap

  
  The Gates of Hell — Authority: 134
  Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania say they’ve discovered a way to circumvent the networking technology used by law enforcement to tap phone lines in the U.S. The flaws they’ve found “represent a serious threat to the accuracy and completeness of wiretap records used for both criminal ...
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• DLP is Short for Disturbing Lack of Process?

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 473
  By Danny Lieberman , Security Expert and Founder of Software Associates Ted Ritter has suggested that we rename DLP a Disturbing Lack of Process … Indeed DLP is not a well-defined term – since so many vendors (Kaspersky anti-virus, McAfee anti-virus, Symantec anti-virus, Trend Micro Provilla, CA ...
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• Slashdot Your Rights Online Story | How To DDoS a Federal Wiretap

  
  r-echos — Authority: 139
  “Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania say they’ve discovered a way to circumvent the networking technology used by law enforcement to tap phone lines in the US. The flaws they’ve found ‘represent a serious threat to the accuracy and completeness of wiretap records used for both criminal investigation ...
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• News Story DDoS for sale

  
  Business Finance & Economy - business.marc8.com — Authority: 163
  According to the latest McAfee Labs Third Quarter Threats Report 2009 instances of Distributed Denial of Service attacks are growing in popularity. read more
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• InfoBore 86

  
  UBIWAR — Authority: 434
  China Proves to be an Aggressive Foe in Cyberspace – Ellen Nakashima & John Pomfret, Washington Post Augmented Reality Security Considerations – Doug Crescenzi, MetaSecurity [also at SecureMetaverse - cheers for the link, Doug!] The $9m World-Wide Bank Robbery – Gary Warner, CyberCrime & ...
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• ISAlliance To Release Cyber Security Report

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 473
  From The Internet Security Alliance Who: The Internet Security Alliance (ISA) What: The ISA will release a new cybersecurity report, which proposes frameworks for taking key issues in the Obama Administration’s “Cyberspace Policy Review” document to the next level, in an effort to achieve ...
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• Four Pillars of Cyber Warfare: Intelligence

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 473
  By Richard Stiennon, Chief Research Analyst, IT-Harvest There are four pillars to the cyber war realm: intelligence, technology, logistics, and command. One premise is that cyber warfare is a component of the ongoing struggle between philosophies of politics, governance, and markets to be waged by opposing ...
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• Cyber Jargon YOU Need To Know

  
  The New New Internet — Authority: 431
  As the use of the internet and technology grows, so do its terms and definitions. Here is a rundown of today’s most frequently used cyber terms. We left something out? Please feel free to leave a comment below to further enhance our ‘cyber jargon’ glossary. Authentication: Confirms that a computer program ...
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• Twitter: A Window into #WestIndian Culture

  
  Gen Y PR Prescriptions — Authority: 108
  As an online PR professional, you work with a variety of web based tools, dashboards, platforms, destinations, networks…throw in a few more nouns and you get the point. Business and tech analysts dig into them upon release, a value is assigned to them and their creators, promotion hits hyperdrive and off it goes to ...
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• “Anonymous” Attacks: Is the Snake Biting Its Tail?

  
  The Art of the Prank — Authority: 502
  The Assclown Offensive: How to Enrage the Church of Scientology by Julian Dibbell WIRED September 21, 2009 In the evening of January 15, 2008, a 31-year-old tech consultant named Gregg Housh sat down at the computer and paid a visit to one of his favorite Web sites, the message board known as 4chan . Like most of ...
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• InfoBore 82

  
  UBIWAR — Authority: 434
  Homeland Security Plans Virtual World Terror Attack Simulators – Pixels & Policy Swedish Spooks Knocked Offline By Hack Attack – John Leyden, The Register Second Life Enterprise: Virtual Worlds Behind the Corporate Firewall – Paul Raven, Futurismic The Cyberspace Explosion: Five Tips for ...
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• Swedish Signals Intelligence Agency Taken Offline By A Massive DDoS Attack

  
  CyberInsecure.com — Authority: 126
  The website of the Swedish Signals Intelligence agency (Försvarets Radioanstalt, or FRA) was taken offline by a massive DDoS attack this week.Fra.se was intermittently inaccessible from Monday night until Thursday morning, when full service was restored. The agency was in the news recently after Swedish legislators ...
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• Sweden’s SIGINT Agency Hit by DDoS

  
  The New New Internet — Authority: 431
  Försvarets Radioanstalt (FRA), the SIGINT Agency in Sweden, was subjected to a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that lasted from Monday to Thursday according to agency officials. In a statement released by the agency, FRA officials said that the attack did not hamper their ability to conduct their ...
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• InfoBore 80

  
  UBIWAR — Authority: 434
  US Navy Chief Favors Speeding Up Unmanned Programs – Reuters China Chief Says Space Arms Inevitable: State Media – AFP First Pillar of Cyber Warfare: Intelligence – Richard Stiennon, ThreatChaos A Markoffian Muddle On Microchips? – Alex K. Limburg, IntelFusion Pricing Scheme For a DDoS ...
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• Top Five Financial Sector Security Threats

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 473
  By Kevin M. Nixon , Information Security Resources Security Editor It is usual and customary during the 4th Quarter of any year, to think about the potential threats to our financial institutions and corporations, in an effort to get ahead of the curve and stave off additional failures. I have listed my Top 5 ...
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• Swedish Police and 40 Other Sites Suffer DDoS Attacks

  
  The Next Web — Authority: 772
  A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack severely disrupted Sweden’s police administration web site last week. Swedish authorities still haven’t discovered who was behind a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack which rendered a number of major Swedish websites, including the country’s police site, ...
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• Sweden Hit by DDoS Attacks

  
  The New New Internet — Authority: 431
  Approximately 40 web pages in Sweden were subjected to distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks late last week. A number of media websites were attacked along with the police website. The attacks brought down the majority of the websites for a few hours. Each of the media companies that were affected rent ...
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• InfoBore 78

  
  UBIWAR — Authority: 434
  DDoS Attacks Topple 40 Swedish Sites – Dan Goodin, The Register Are Militaries Lagging Their Non-State Enemies in Use of Internet? An Interview with Chris Gunderson – ACM Ubiquity New US Cyber Center Will Coordinate Response to Computer Attacks – Lolita C. Baldor, AP NERC v FERC: A Symbol of All ...
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