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• No Ifs or Bots: if only…

  
  ThreatBlog — Authority: 568
  I came across a nice article today by Dennis Fisher on “ The Root of the Botnet Epidemic ”. Its the start of what looks like an interesting series on "the roots, growth and effects of the botnet epidemic" and the first aricle takes a historical overview of the situation around the turn of the century, looking at ...
  1 hour ago

• BlackBerry Maker Concerned about Denial of Service Attack through Smartphones

  
  PhoneReport v2.0 - latest news, specs, reviews, interviews, and analysis — Authority: 431
  WATERLOO, Canada - Last week, Scott Totzke, RIM’s VP of BlackBerry Security, stated his concerns about the use of "rogue" devices as tools to enable a distributed denial of service attack on wireless networks. An example of such an attack was carried out in July to slow the networks in South Korea and the USA. ...
  6 days ago

• Surviving Cyber War: A Primer on DDoS

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 532
  By Richard Stiennon, Chief Research Analyst, IT-Harvest Jomini’s first maxim of the Art of War: To throw by strategic movements the mass of an army, successively, upon the decisive points of a theater of war, and also upon the communications of the enemy as much as possible without compromising one’s ...
  1 week ago

• Scientology website attacker sent to jail

  
  Graham Cluley's blog — Authority: 711
  A 19-year-old man has been sentenced to a year and a day in prison after instigating a distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS) against websites belonging to the highly controversial Scientology organisation. Dmitriy Guzner, of Verona, New Jersey, played a key role in an attack in January 2008 which crippled ...
  1 week ago

• RIM Security VP Worried About Smartphone DDOS Attacks – Why?

  
  BerryReview.com — Authority: 633
  I am usually called the paranoid security guy with the tinfoil hat. When I was reading a recent quote by Scott Totzke, RIM’s VP of BlackBerry Security, even I was kind of taken back. He claims that one day hackers could use BlackBerrys/Smartphones to attack wireless networks. This is kind of interesting since it ...
  1 week ago

• ISAlliance: Cyber Security is Economic Issue

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 532
  By Anthony M. Freed , Information-Security-Resources.com Managing Editor Internet Security Alliance President Larry Clinton joined several other prominent information security advocates to provide testimony before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Terrorism and Homeland Security Tuesday. ...
  1 week ago

• FBI Official Says Terrorists are Seeking Cyber Capabilities

  
  The New New Internet — Authority: 428
  According to an FBI official, terrorists are presently attempting to harness the abilities of the internet to conduct cyber attacks. During a statement before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Terrorism and Homeland Security, the FBI’s deputy assistant director, cyber division, Steven Chabinsky, ...
  1 week ago

• ISAlliance to Testify for Senate Judiciary

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 532
  From The Internet Security Alliance Media Alert: Internet Security Alliance President to Testify at U.S. Senate Judiciary Subcommittee Hearing Larry Clinton, president of the Internet Security Alliance (ISA), will testify tomorrow at a U.S. Senate Judiciary Terrorism and Homeland Security ...
  2 weeks ago

• 2010 Defense Authorization Act Spending

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 532
  By Richard Stiennon, Chief Research Analyst, IT-Harvest On October 28th President Obama signed into law the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010 (655 page PDF here ). After removing the Department of Energy allotment of $122 million it appears that the DoD is not gearing up in a major ...
  2 weeks ago

• Is There a Windows 7 Zero-Day Exploit?

  
  Security Watch — Authority: 547
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• SMB2 Exploit Provides Remote DOS Attack Against Windows 7

  
  Security Watch — Authority: 547
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• How to DDOS a federal wiretap

  
  The Gates of Hell — Authority: 133
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• DLP is Short for Disturbing Lack of Process?

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 532
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Slashdot Your Rights Online Story | How To DDoS a Federal Wiretap

  
  r-echos — Authority: 138
  “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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• How To DDoS a Federal Wiretap

  
  r-echos — Authority: 138
  “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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• News Story DDoS for sale

  
  Business Finance & Economy - business.marc8.com — Authority: 166
  According to the latest McAfee Labs Third Quarter Threats Report 2009 instances of Distributed Denial of Service attacks are growing in popularity. read more
  2 weeks ago

• InfoBore 86

  
  UBIWAR — Authority: 432
  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 & ...
  2 weeks ago

• ISAlliance To Release Cyber Security Report

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 532
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Four Pillars of Cyber Warfare: Intelligence

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 532
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Cyber Jargon YOU Need To Know

  
  The New New Internet — Authority: 428
  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 ...
  3 weeks ago

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