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China’s Internet hit by biggest cyberattack in its history

2013-08-26/0 Comments/in General Security/by SecurityOrb_Staff

Were you trying to access a .cn Internet address over the weekend? Are you still hitting refresh?

Internet users in China were met with sluggish response times early Sunday as the country’s domain extension came under a “denial of service” attack.

US science fund pumps $20 million into cybersecurity research

2013-08-26/0 Comments/in General Security/by SecurityOrb_Staff

US science fund pumps $20 million into cybersecurity research

China’s Internet hit by biggest cyberattack in its history

2013-08-26/0 Comments/in General Security/by SecurityOrb_Staff

Were you trying to access a .cn Internet address over the weekend? Are you still hitting refresh?

Internet users in China were met with sluggish response times early Sunday as the country’s domain extension came under a “denial of service” attack.

US science fund pumps $20 million into cybersecurity research

2013-08-26/0 Comments/in General Security/by SecurityOrb_Staff

US science fund pumps $20 million into cybersecurity research

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China’s Internet hit by biggest cyberattack in its history

2013-08-26/0 Comments/in General Security/by SecurityOrb_Staff

Were you trying to access a .cn Internet address over the weekend? Are you still hitting refresh?

Internet users in China were met with sluggish response times early Sunday as the country’s domain extension came under a “denial of service” attack.

The attack was the largest of its kind ever in China, according to the China Internet Network Information Center, a state agency that manages the .cn country domain.

The double-barreled attacks took place at around 2 a.m. Sunday, and then again at 4 a.m. The second attack was “long-lasting and large-scale,” according to state media, which said that service was slowly being restored.

Official state media said the attack targeted websites with the .cn country domain, as well as the popular microblogging site Sina Weibo.

Denial of service attacks aren’t technically “hacks,” since they can be done without breaking into any systems. Typically, DoS attacks overwhelm a website’s servers by flooding them with requests. That makes websites unreachable or unresponsive.

To bring down bigger sites, attackers will sometimes organize large numbers of infected computers to send requests all at once.

Read the rest here.

US science fund pumps $20 million into cybersecurity research

2013-08-26/0 Comments/in General Security/by SecurityOrb_Staff

America’s National Science Foundation (NSF) last week announced an investment of $20 million into three academic cybersecurity research projects.

The studies cover cloud security, privacy issues, and improving the security of health-related systems and networks.

The NSF supports over 100 research projects related to cybersecurity, but their ‘Frontier’ awards are among the biggest they grant, supporting major multi-discipline, multi-institution projects.

The largest award of this round, of $10 million, went to a project called Trustworthy Health and Wellness (THaW), a five-year collaboration between researchers from Dartmouth College, Johns Hopkins University, the University of Illinois and the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, which hosts the Archimedes Center for Medical Device Security.

Their research covers all things medical, including improving secure access to patient data from modern mobile devices, safely using cloud technology for data storage and analysis, and allowing patients to control the personal data gathered by hi-tech medical scanners and sensors.

Read the rest here at Naked Security.