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DDoS

Rolling Stone magazine hacker arrested

Chuck Miller July 01, 2009

A disgruntled software developer has been charged with launching attacks against Rolling Stone and Radar Magazine.

Iran election protesters use Twitter to recruit hackers

Angela Moscaritolo June 15, 2009

Political unrest resulting from the presidential election in Iran has escalated to a cyberwar between the Iranian government and activists, according to security experts monitoring the situation.

Scientology hacker admits guilt

Dan Kaplan May 18, 2009

A 19-year-old New Jersey man has pleaded guilty for his role in a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that took down the website of the Church of Scientology. Dmitriy Guzner, who was charged in October, was part of an underground group named Anonymous. Guzner faces up to 10 years in prison when he is sentenced Aug. 24. Anonymous has said it wanted to bring down the church site after the church tried to claim copyright infringement over the spread of edited clips from a 2004 promotional video featuring actor and well-known Scientologist Tom Cruise. — DK

Mac attack: Bot herders going after Apple computers

Greg Masters April 17, 2009

Bot herders have found a way to infest Mac computers: via pirated software.

Conficker variant in the wild

Chuck Miller April 08, 2009

Researchers at anti-virus firm BitDefender said this week they have identified a new variant of the Conficker worm. The new variant, which is similar to previous versions, can evade detection and disinfection by tools that have been created to deter the threat. It also can block access to websites of anti-virus vendors, as well as third parties offering online scanning services or removal tools. In addition, the primary obfuscation layer has been rewritten to prevent detection. — CAM

DDoS attacks hit major web services

Chuck Miller April 02, 2009

Attacks on major web services providers caused disruptions in service to internet users.

Conficker expectedly chaos-free as it activates across world

Dan Kaplan April 01, 2009

Right on schedule, the latest variant of the Conficker worm awoke Wednesday, querying hundreds of new URLs for instructions on what to do next. But, as most experts predicted, there were no orders to be had, and the estimated millions of machines infected by the malware remain in standby mode.

Is Conficker overhyped?

Dan Raywood March 27, 2009

Reports of the Conficker worm are being vastly exaggerated and it will not have as big an impact as is being predicted, claims a security researcher.

No joke -- Conficker worm set to explode on April Fool's Day

Angela Moscaritolo March 13, 2009

Security researchers have warned that Conficker worm's newest variant, which kills protective security processes, is set to activate on April 1.

Russia confirms involvement with Estonia DDoS attacks

Chuck Miller March 12, 2009

The long-rumored perpetrators of DDoS attacks during the 2007 conflict between Russia and Estonia were members of a youth group with ties to the Kremlin, a Russian State Duma deputy, Sergei Markov, has confirmed.

Firefox update addresses multiple security issues

Angela Moscaritolo March 05, 2009

Mozilla on Wednesday issued Firefox 3.0.7, which fixes multiple security issues that could potentially enable an attacker to run arbitrary code on a victim's computer, cause a denial-of-service condition, obtain sensitive information, or spoof the location bar, according to an advisory from US-CERT Thursday.

Time Warner confirms DDoS

Dan Kaplan February 26, 2009

Time Warner Cable confirmed Thursday that distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against its DNS servers are to blame for the slower-than-normal service affecting its broadband customers, particularly those living in Southern California, for about the past week. The company said in a statement that the culprits likely are using botnets to deliver their traffic because the attacks are "larger and more difficult to contain than similar attacks in the past." — DK

Adobe fixes critical vulnerabilities in Flash Player

Angela Moscaritolo February 25, 2009

Adobe on Tuesday issued a patch for Flash Player to address multiple vulnerabilities that could enable an attacker to take control of an affected system or execute arbitrary code.

New Sality variant contains moneymaking twist

Angela Moscaritolo February 19, 2009

The newest variant of the Sality virus combines a little bit of old and a little bit of new to infect users.

New style of DNS amplification can yield powerful DDoS attacks

Angela Moscaritolo February 04, 2009

The coming wave of distributed denial-of-service attacks will leverage non-recursive DNS name servers to overwhelm targets, and many ISPs likely are vulnerable, a researcher said this week.

Muslim hackers attack Israeli websites as Gaza strikes continue

Dan Kaplan December 31, 2008

Muslim extremists are targeting Israeli websites, as the conflict in the Gaza Strip rages on, with no end in sight.

Fending off network attacks

Greg Masters December 23, 2008

With attackers shifting their focus to applications, the IT team at University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine, decided it was time to upgrade the school's intrusion prevention solution, reports Greg Masters.

2008: A year of cybercriminal innovation

Angela Moscaritolo, December 04, 2008

With the emergence of new attack techniques and the reinvention of old ones, 2008 has been a year of cybercriminal innovation.

iPhone and iPod touch 2.2 update addresses flaws

Angela Moscaritolo November 24, 2008

The vulnerabilities can be maliciously exploited to bypass certain security restrictions.

Study: Internet service providers facing more, larger threats

Angela Moscaritolo November 11, 2008

The scale of distributed denial of service attacks has grown 100-fold since 2001, leaving some ISPs with long outages.

Church of Scientology website hacker charged

Angela Moscaritolo October 21, 2008

Dmitriy Guzner, a member of the underground hacker group Anonymous, faces up to a decade in prison for his role in the DDoS hack against the Church of Scientology website.

European hackers charged with DDoS attacks in the U.S.

Angela Moscaritolo October 07, 2008

Two European men have been charged with hacking U.S. retail websites and causing more than $400,000 in damage through a series of distributed denial-of-service attacks in 2003.