hackers service attack
Twitter blackout confirmed as denial-of-service attack
News A denial-of-service attack occurs when hackers overload a web service's infrastructure with data, making its servers slow to a crawl or crash altogether. The... [06 Aug 2009]
MI5 plugs website flaw that left site open to hack attack
News The website suffered a cross-site scripting vulnerability that could have allowed hackers to inject code into the site and redirect users to malicious pages, MI5 admitted on Wednesday. However, the government... [30 Jul 2009]
Novel Mechanism to Defend DDoS Attacks Caused by Spam
White Paper But these mail services are frequent target of hackers and spammers. These days the DDoS attack through spam has increased and disturbed the mail services of various organizations. This paper proposes a... [01 Jul 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 13.02.09
Round-Up One of hackers' favourite tricks is to disguise their attack as an e-card from an anonymous admirer, and as Valentine's Day approaches we can expect the fraudsters to redouble their efforts," reckons... [13 Feb 2009]
Making Virtual Support Secure
White Paper Remote access and control technologies constitute the most common path of attack for hackers. Bomgar helps to strengthen security by giving organizations more control over what happens at the... [13 Feb 2009]
Vista flaw leaves OS open to DoS attack
News H is for Hackers Unterleitner told ZDNet UK via email that the "exploit can be used to turn off the computer using a [denial-of-service] attack". A flaw has been found in Windows Vista... [24 Nov 2008]
Net bombarded by heaviest ever attacks this year
News H is for Hackers Chief security officer for Arbor Networks Danny McPherson said the growth in attack size continues to "significantly outpace" the corresponding increase in underlying transmission speed... [12 Nov 2008]
Stark warning over cyber attacks on UK businesses
News H is for Hackers Internet warfare expert Ira Winkler, president of the Internet Security Advisory Group, said Chinese hackers were "vacuuming up the internet for security and economic secrets" - citing... [29 Oct 2008]
OpenID at risk due to DNS flaw, claims researcher
News H is for Hackers This opens the door to a cache-poisoning attack where a malicious server would pretend to be the true OpenID provider. OpenID is a shared, online identity service that... [14 Aug 2008]
RIM patches PDF security hole
News RIM has released a patch for a security flaw in BlackBerry Enterprise Server, which exposed corporate networks to hackers via a maliciously crafted PDF document. The flaw did not expose BlackBerry devices to... [23 Jul 2008]
Rapid Response Monitoring Services, Inc. Ensures Security and Business Commitments With Managed BorderGuard High Security VPN Services
White Paper With the threat of attack from hackers becoming more tangible each day, RRMS wanted to add an additional layer of protection to its security systems to meet the risk head-on and bolster the critical... [11 Jul 2008]
Corporations riddled with security holes
News These high risk vulnerabilities are widely known and actively exploited by hackers, leaving many companies susceptible to attack. Some OpenSSL versions are known to contain several vulnerabilities that... [19 Jun 2008]
Botnets: The New Threat Landscape
White Paper It is easy to commission botnet attack services and hackers are quicker than ever to exploit new vulnerabilities. The rise of consumer broadband has greatly increased the power of botnets to launch... [13 Jun 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Warped perceptions
Comment Hackers are smarter and younger than you. You need two security departments - one to defend and one to attack. Written at Schiphol Airport in the Netherlands and dispatched via an airline lounge wi-fi... [28 May 2008]
Warning: The Storm still rages on
News H is for Hackers Security vendor Symantec has warned that the Storm worm, the malware which contributes to the Storm botnet, is continuing to evolve and now has two further possible avenues of attack. [07 May 2008]
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