Denial of Service

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• Denial of Service Attack Takes Out Several Online Retailers

  
  Technologizer — Authority: 695
  A denial of service (DDoS) attack Wednesday on the servers of DNS provider UltraDNS took out several major websites, including retailer Amazon, for almost an hour on Wednesday. The company provides DNS services for Amazon, Wal-Mart, Expedia, and a host of other sites, and the attack rendered these sites unreachable ...
  5 days ago

• Web staggers under pre-Christmas DDoS attack – CNET News

  
  Memmis.com News Agency — Authority: 173
  The News Chronicle (blog) Web staggers under pre-Christmas DDoS attack CNET News Two days before Christmas is likely not the best time for Amazon to go down , but at some point around 5 pm PST Wednesday evening, Amazon was loading ... DDoS Brings Down UltraDNS, Amazon The Inquisitr ...
  5 days ago

• Inside Kapersky Lab’s Threat Predictions for 2010

  
  ReveNews — Authority: 468
  According to the researchers at Kapersky Lab , the scope of threats computer users will face in the new year seem to be shifting from web applications to file sharing and peer-to-peer (P2P) networks. Of course, some of the newer trends in computing don’t get off easy in this report. Exploiting smartphones like the ...
  1 week ago

• Inside Kapersky Lab’s Threat Predictions for 2010

  
  Affiliate Marketing | Affiliate Networks — Authority: 142
  According to the researchers at Kapersky Lab, the scope of threats computer users will face in the new year seem to be shifting from web applications to file sharing and peer-to-peer (P2P) networks. Of course, some of the newer trends in computing don’t get off easy in this report. Exploiting smartphones like the ...
  1 week ago

• Adobe plugs gaping holes in Flash Media Server

  
  Zero Day — Authority: 567
  The patch addresses issues that allow an attacker to run malicious code on the affected system.
  1 week ago

• ‘Operation Chokehold’ shows the social media mob has influence

  
  The Mobile Fun Blog — Authority: 144
  By Joe Wilcox , Betanews “ Operation Chokehold ” has come and gone, with no sign it even put AT&T in a headlock. But with so many people complaining of service already so spotty, could anyone really tell the difference short of network failure? For AT&T, there is little victory in surviving the ...
  1 week ago

• Twitter Disrupted By Web Attack

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 904
  The popular micro-blogging service suffered outages Thursday after hackers broke into its computer servers.
  1 week ago

• Twitter Disrupted By Web Attack

  
  Bits — Authority: 784
  Twitter was the target of a cyberattack Thursday that disrupted its microblogging service for many users, especially those accessing it directly through the company’s Web site.The service appeared to be functioning normally on Friday morning.In a blog post late Thursday evening, Biz Stone, a founder of Twitter, said ...
  1 week ago

• Twitter’s DNS Records Hacked by Iranian Cyber Army

  
  Technofriends — Authority: 444
  Twitter was hacked a few hours back and hackers who claim themselves as Iranian Cyber Army were able to carry out this attack by compromising Twitter’s DNS Records. While Twitter has accepted that they had issue with their DNS records, no more details have officially been revealed. How can someone hack ...
  1 week ago

• Cisco patches critical WebEx security holes

  
  Zero Day — Authority: 567
  Cisco WebEx WRF Player vulnerable to six code execution vulnerabilities.
  1 week ago

• Mozilla patches critical, high-risk Firefox vulnerabilities

  
  Zero Day — Authority: 567
  The most serious issue could lead to remote code execution attacks. In other scenarios, the bugs could cause denial-of-service or URL spoofing attacks.
  1 week ago

• The Top 3 Web Hosting Security Issues

  
  Web Hosting Geeks' Blog - News, Trends, Discussions. — Authority: 123
  Security is by far one of the most important factors to consider when choosing a web host. With so  many possible threats online, it is not as hard as on might think for a security lapse to occur. Security is not something that should be taken lightly by the consumer or the web host, as there are several threats that ...
  2 weeks ago

• Technology And The Advent of Cyber War

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 476
  By Richard Stiennon, Chief Research Analyst, IT-Harvest A recent spate of news reports and scholarly publications have discussed the policy aspects of cyber war: offensive versus defensive, military buildup, and appropriate reactions. There have been no reports dealing with the technology of engaging in ...
  2 weeks ago

• Adobe plugs dangerous Flash Player security holes

  
  Zero Day — Authority: 567
  Adobe has shipped a critical Flash Player update to fix at least seven documented security vulnerabilities that expose nearly every computer user to dangerous hacker attacks.
  2 weeks ago

• Patch Tuesday: Microsoft plugs IE drive-by download security holes

  
  Zero Day — Authority: 567
  The most serious issues affect the companys Internet Explorer browser, including the newest IE 8 on Windows 7.
  3 weeks ago

• Wordpress plugins worth your time

  
  mamikaze — Authority: 127
  Wordpress plugins can make your blog better and your blogging easier. These are my new faves.Bad BehaviorBad Behavior complements other link spam solutions by acting as a gatekeeper, preventing spammers from ever delivering their junk, and in many cases, from ever reading your site in the first place. This keeps your ...
  3 weeks ago

• Please contact blacklistmgr@yahoo.com” – wtf?

  
  ThePizzy.net/blog — Authority: 99
  I came into work today, and was met with some people telling me that our site had been blacklisted. It took a lot of runaround, and everyone denying involvement, but it sorta worked itself out. So what exactly happened?Our Internet is hosted through XO Communications. Our domain is registered through Register.com, and ...
  3 weeks ago

• Patch Tuesday heads-up: MS to fix critical IE, Office security holes

  
  Zero Day — Authority: 567
  Microsoft plans to release six security bulletins next Tuesday (December 8, 2009) to fix security flaws affected IE, Microsoft Office and the Windows operating system.
  3 weeks ago

• Critical zero-day flaw found in Adobe Illustrator

  
  Zero Day — Authority: 567
  Adobes security response team is scrambling to deal with the release of exploit code for what appears to be a critical zero-day flaw in the Adobe Illustrator CS4 software product.
  3 weeks ago

• Vulnerabilities In PDF Distiller Of The BlackBerry Attachment Service For BES [Security Advisory]

  
  BlackBerry Rocks! — Authority: 513
  RIM has posted KB19860 , a security advisory with information on current vulnerabilities in the PDF distiller of the BlackBerry Attachment Service for BlackBerry Enterprise Server. Multiple security vulnerabilities exist in the PDF distiller of some released versions of the BlackBerry Attachment Service component ...
  3 weeks ago

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