Items Tagged with "Attacks"
Anonymous, Conspiracies, and Blowback
October 05, 2011 Added by:Scot Terban
A video posted on YouTube has some ominous overtones, with heavy imagery to incite people to do more than just protest. What is most worrisome is that there may be individuals out there who will heed the call and go for an all out “run” against Wall Street bankers...
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Anonymous Splinters over Planned NYSE Attacks
October 04, 2011 Added by:Headlines
While the tough sounding rhetoric may work to inspire some followers of Anonymous to join the attacks, other members of the collective have issued warnings that the attacks will simply result in more arrests, stating "We do not want history to repeat itself, and are sincerely worried..."
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Cyber Attacks: Iran Will Retaliate
October 03, 2011 Added by:Joel Harding
What does Iran mean by ‘We will retaliate in cyberspace’? Iran has a record of Shamshir rattling and ‘trash talk’. Yes, Iran has formed a cyber command. Yes, there is a hacker group called the Iranian Cyber Army, and they were defacing pages in China and even took down Baidu...
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Scammers Exploiting Bogus DigiNotar SSL Certificates
September 20, 2011 Added by:Headlines
Security provider Barracuda Networks has warned of a spamming campaign targeting Royal Bank of Canada customers. The spam messages falsely notify users that their SSL certificate has expired, and that in order to continue using online banking services they are required to update the certificate...
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A Stuxnet Apocalypse?
September 13, 2011 Added by:Scot Terban
"Could a Stuxnet-like system affect the production and development of a nuclear weapon? Yes and no. Yes as in it certainly could screw up enrichment, obviously, but wouldn’t screw up the end-result - hence why Stuxnet was found in the first place..."
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Stuxnet Could Be Modified to Undermine Nuclear Weapons
September 12, 2011 Added by:Headlines
"Nuclear warheads are controlled by computers so if someone managed to slip a worm inside a facility that will reach the warhead component, they could launch it and than aim it back at the country’s facility... Stuxnet is the first cyber weapon that could cause major disruption...:
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RSA Attack: All That Glitters Isn't China
September 07, 2011 Added by:J. Oquendo
RSA Attack: So we have a company that digs up a name, associates that name with a quick Google search to an IP in China and labels it a threat, then they compile a half-checked dynamic malware analysis and call it a day. Those are the facts according to FireEye and others, here are mine...
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On Car Hacking Attacks
September 05, 2011 Added by:Theresa Payton
There is nothing like a nice sunny day driving around town in your car, listening to your favorite music. But did you know that depending upon how you get your music, you might make your home computer vulnerable to hackers and also your car?
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Backtrack 5: Linux and Mac Vulnerable to Malicious Scripts
August 31, 2011 Added by:Dan Dieterle
Malicious scripts and executables are encoded and obfuscated to purposely bypass anti-virus programs. Once they are run on a target machine - Windows, Mac or Linux - they connect through the firewall to the attacker's machine. It is imperative to educate your users about these attacks...
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Did China Really Expose a Cyber Attack Tool?
August 30, 2011 Added by:Joel Harding
Wow, it’s really cool that we have proof that China not only has the capabilities but has been caught red-handed attacking a website, and the target they’re attacking is located inside the US. I’m sure somebody at the new US Cyber Command jumped up and down and said, “Yes! We have proof..."
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Advanced Persistent Monkey See Monkey Do
August 30, 2011 Added by:J. Oquendo
Arguments surrounding APT will remain a battle of expert vs. expert - but how about we use some common sense for a moment? If YOU were an attacker, why would you bother attacking from your own fixed location? It would make more sense to attack from another country for deflection purposes...
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Q2 DDoS Attacks: Some Facts and Figures
August 29, 2011 Added by:Headlines
"Cybercriminals... are increasingly using DDoS attacks as a diversionary tactic when launching more sophisticated attacks such as those on online banking systems. Complex attacks of this nature are particularly damaging in that they can cause significant losses for the financial institutions..."
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A Look Inside the Anonymous DDoS Attack Code
August 23, 2011 Added by:Headlines
"Many think of DDoS as a computer network such as a bot network of rogue or infected machines which carry out the orders of whoever controls them. In the case of this specific code, Anonymous only needed to control a single system to begin the attack. The rest is carried out by unwitting accomplices..."
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Authorities Arrest Man Over Stock Exchange Attack
August 22, 2011 Added by:Headlines
Authorities in Hong Kong have arrested a man on suspicion of conducting a cyber attack against the Hong Kong Exchange (HKEx) nearly two weeks ago. The man was detained late last week and police seized five computers, several mobile phones, and other items, according to reports...
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Could a Cyber Attack Shut Down the Stock Exchange?
August 19, 2011 Added by:Scot Terban
The system is vulnerable to attacks that would have great consequences to the financial system within the US as well as potentially the world. Perhaps Mr. Kass is just looking to leverage the fear, perhaps he is trying to fire off the "Bat Signal” that something is wrong or inevitable...
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I Know Who You Hacked Last Summer - Attribution 101
August 18, 2011 Added by:J. Oquendo
The media, security companies, and the “Cybersecurity Industrial Complex” labels almost all attacks as Advanced Persistent Threats almost always originating from China. The mechanism for identifying the attackers is always the same: "The attacker came from the following IP address..."
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