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  Facebook Down; Worm May Be to Blame
  Facebook slows to a crawl and an AVG researcher claims worms are at fault
  by gearheadgal / on Nov 23, 2009

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “denial of service”

• Technology And The Advent of Cyber War

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 498
  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 ...
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• Adobe plugs dangerous Flash Player security holes

  
  Zero Day — Authority: 580
  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.
  1 week ago

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

  
  Zero Day — Authority: 580
  The most serious issues affect the companys Internet Explorer browser, including the newest IE 8 on Windows 7.
  1 week ago

• Wordpress plugins worth your time

  
  mamikaze — Authority: 128
  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 ...
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• 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 ...
  1 week ago

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

  
  Zero Day — Authority: 580
  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.
  1 week ago

• Critical zero-day flaw found in Adobe Illustrator

  
  Zero Day — Authority: 580
  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.
  1 week ago

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

  
  BlackBerry Rocks! — Authority: 543
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Beware of rigged PDF files on BlackBerry

  
  Zero Day — Authority: 580
  Hackers can use maliciously rigged PDF files to hack into corporate systems hosting the BlackBerry Attachment Service.
  2 weeks ago

• Exploit published for FreeBSD local root vulnerability

  
  Zero Day — Authority: 580
  The FreeBSD security team has rushed out a temporary patch to cover a local root vulnerability that exposes users to code execution attacks.
  2 weeks ago

• No Ifs or Bots: if only…

  
  ThreatBlog — Authority: 587
  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 ...
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• Two new RFCs for Usenet and other netnews systems

  
  blog.anta.net — Authority: 106
  After eight and twelve years of work, respectively, two normative RFCs on netnews — newsgroups and their use — have been published. Together, “Netnews Article Format” (RFC 5536) and “Netnews Architecture and Protocols” (RFC 5537) make obsolete “Standard for Interchange of USENET Messages” ...
  2 weeks ago

• Opera patches extremely severe security hole

  
  Zero Day — Authority: 580
  Opera has shipped a new version of its browser to fix three security vulnerabilities, one rated "extremely severe."
  3 weeks ago

• Exploit published for critical IE 7 zero-day flaw

  
  Zero Day — Authority: 580
  The vulnerability could be used in malware attacks to take complete control of a Windows machine running IE 6 or IE 7.
  3 weeks ago

• Surviving Cyber War: A Primer on DDoS

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 498
  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 ...
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• Inside the Google Chrome OS security model

  
  Zero Day — Authority: 580
  Google will use a combination of system hardening, process isolation, verified boot, secure auto-update and encryption that thwart malicious hackers from attacking its new Google Chrome OS.
  3 weeks ago

• Microsoft finds security hole in Google Chrome Frame

  
  Zero Day — Authority: 580
  A security researcher in the Microsoft Vulnerability Research (MSVR) has discovered a "high risk" Google Chrome Frame security vulnerability that could allow an attacker to bypass cross-origin protections.
  3 weeks ago

• Mozilla locks out rogue Firefox add-ons

  
  Zero Day — Authority: 580
  Mozilla has made a significant tweak to this Firefox 3.6 code base to block rogue add-ons from loading in the browsers application components directory.
  4 weeks ago

• Windows SMB Subject to Denial-of-Service Attack

  
  Computer & Internet - computer-internet.marc8.com — Authority: 167
  Microsoft is continuing to investigate holes in its Server Message Block file-sharing protocol used in Windows.
  4 weeks ago

• Microsoft confirms detailed Windows 7 exploit

  
  Zero Day — Authority: 580
  Exploit code for the vulnerability was released by researcher Laurent Gaffié after failed attempts to get Microsofts security response center to acknowledge that this was an issue that needs to be patched.
  4 weeks ago

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