See how beautiful a DDoS attack can look
A posting From Cnet News in there security and privacy section: Using the Web app Logstalgia, a developer has managed to capture on video a visual impression of what happens during a DDoS attack. We've all heard of a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack and know what it is: when a person or people attempt to take […]
Google tightens up Play Store policy, officially bans "off-market" updates...
A posting from Naked Security: Google has made a number of changes to its Android Play Store ecosystem recently. Part of the reason is that Mountain View has been copping lots of flak for the prevalence ofmalware in unofficial application markets, often in pirated apps. That's a trifle unfair, since one of the attractions of Android over […]
Spamhaus DDoS Suspect Arrested
A posting from Information week in there Security section: Police in the Netherlands Friday announced the arrest of a 35-year-old Dutchman on charges of having launched "unprecedented heavy attacks on the non-profit organization Spamhaus." The suspect, identified only as "S.K." by Dutch police, has been named in multiple news reports as Sven Kamphuis, the leader of Amsterdam-based […]
Syrian Hacktivists Hit Guardian Twitter Feeds
An article form Information week about Syrian Hacktivists Hit Guardian Twitter Feeds: The Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) announced Sunday that it took over 11 Twitter feeds belonging to Britain's Guardian newspaper, including its book, film, photography and travel feeds, as well as multiple journalists' accounts. It also posted passwords -- composed of 15 randomized characters -- it claimed […]
Twitter Two-Factor Authentication: Too Little, Too Late?
A posting from Information week in there security section: Can you feel the two-factor fever? Following in the footsteps of Microsoft this month, Apple in March, and Facebook and Google before them,Twitter is now testing a two-factor authentication system to make it more difficult for attackers to hijack people's accounts. That's welcome news in the wake of […]
50,000,000 usernames and passwords lost as LivingSocial "special offers" site hacked
A posting from Naked Security about 50,000,000 usernames and passwords lost as LivingSocial "special offers" site hacked: LivingSocial, the online offers site owned in largish part by Amazon, has just emailed its userbase, said to be 50,000,000-strong, to fess up to a data breach. That's right: another day, another shed-load of password hashes in the hands of […]
AP Twitter Hack: Lessons Learned
An posting from Information Week security in there security section: Would you trust an email that says: "Please read the following article, it's very important: www.washinqtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/04/23/"? So went a phishing email reportedly sent to multiple employees at the Associated Press, less than an hour before the company's Twitter feed was taken over and used to issue multiple tweets, […]
How Lockheed Martin Phishes Its Own
An posting From Dark Reading about How Lockheed Martin Phishes Its Own: On several occasions over the past couple of years, employees at Lockheed Martin have flagged suspicious emails that turned out to be previously unknown targeted attack campaigns aimed at the defense contractor. This additional pair of eyes in security is one of the bonuses of […]
XSS Vulnerability in Cisco sub domain found by 14 Years Old security researcher
A Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability found in Cisco sub domain newsroom.cisco.com by a 14 Year Youngest security researcher Ali Hasan Gauri, today he reported us about his Latest vulnerability he found in Cisco sub domain.
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