Written by “A new era of computing is on the rise and viruses, spies and malware developers are tagging along for the ride. The new playground for hackers is “the cloud,” the term for computer applications and services hosted on the Internet. Some of the devices making the cloud more popular these days are BlackBerries and other [...]
READ MORE »Daily archives for October 5th, 2009
Whitehouse declares October as the National Cybersecurity Awareness Month.
Don’t know what to make out of it – except that the Whitehouse has decided that October will be the National Cybersecurity Awareness Month. More on this here.
READ MORE »Two Romanians extradited to the US on Phishing and DDOS attack crimes.
“25 year old Petru Bogdan Belbita and 28 year old Cornel Ionut Tonita, both from Romania, were arrested in Canada and Croatia respectively. They stand accused, along with five other defendants, of duping customers of financial institutions, including PayPal, Citibank, Capital One, into divulging information such as credit card or account details, which were then [...]
READ MORE »Ping of Death
Ever wondered what a Ping of Death is? Well wonder no more. Here is a short text tutorial. Remember boys & girls. It is a federal offense to DDoS/DoS. So please don’t do it. Play around on your LAN, but don’t DDoS anyone.
READ MORE »DDoS Tool: DoSHTTP 2.0 on Rapidshare.
You just need to make a small effort to find all sorts of malicious code on the Internet. Tools such as this are commonly downloaded by novices and then cause havoc on networks.
READ MORE »BitBucket.org hit by massive DDoS
BitBucket.org which is a code hosting website service [for the Mercurial (software) that is used extensively by software developers] got hit by a massive DDoS attack. BitBucket which is hosted on Amazon’s Cloud suffered major outage this past weekend. For a company that relies on the Amazon cloud for uptime, scalability and reliablity, this DDoS [...]
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