Change.org Victim of DDoS Attack From China
Source: Michael Kan, IDG News Change.org, an online petitioning platform, has come under an ongoing distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack originating from China after the site hosted a call...
View ArticleOngoing Attacks on Human Rights Web sites and the Problem of Attribution
Ongoing Attacks on Human Rights Websites and the Problem of Attribution A number of cyber attacks took place against human rights groups this week; including Armorize’s discovery of a variant of a...
View ArticleAmid Uprisings, Cyberattacks in Syria
Amid popular uprisings in Syria, Facebook users in the country logging into the secure HTTPS version of the social networking site are finding themselves to be the targets of an ongoing...
View ArticleAnonymous steals 10,000 Iranian government emails, plans DDoS attack
Source: Joe Falconer, The Next Web Anonymous has hacked into Iranian government servers and procured over 10,000 email messages from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The Ministry’s website is still...
View ArticleSpanish police website knocked offline after hacking suspects arrested
Source: Giles Tremlett , The Guardian Spain’s main police website was knocked offline over the weekend in an apparent revenge attack following the arrest of three suspected leaders of the hacking group...
View ArticleBreachfest 2011 Continues
Breachfest 2011 Continues The flood of news of breaches against high profile organizations that Ron Deibert has dubbed Breachfest 2011 remains in full force. Last week, LulzSec broke into the U.S....
View ArticleSyrian Electronic Army: Disruptive Attacks and Hyped Targets
See the latest Update Introduction In The Emergence of Open and Organized Pro-Government Cyber Attacks in the Middle East: The Case of the Syrian Electronic Army, the Information Warfare Monitor’s...
View ArticleNew group of hacktivists claim downing of MasterCard website
Source: Infosecurity The AntiSec movement was one of the last public cause statements issued by the LulzSec hacktivist group before it disbanded over the weekend, Infosecurity notes. MasterCard isn’t...
View ArticleCyber Attacks Against South Korea Were ‘War Drills’ by the North
Source: Giles Turnbull, Time North Korea has been conducting “drills” for cyberwar against its southern neighbor using simple, but very effective denial-of-service attacks, according to security...
View ArticleSouth Korea botnet self-destructed after DDoS
Source: Tom Espiner, ZDNet UK The attack, which began on 4 March, 2011 and continued for 10 days, was launched from a network of compromised computers in South Korea. Once the attack ceased, the bots...
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