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InternetNews August 11, 2009 |
Twitter Hit by Another Denial-of-Service Attack Twitter junkies get denied their fix for a few hours when the microblogging service gets hit with another remote attack. |
InternetNews August 6, 2009 |
Twitter, Facebook Hit in Denial-of-Service Attacks Social media phenoms Twitter and Facebook this morning suffered bouts of downtime - with each blaming a denial-of-service (DDoS) attack for its woes. |
Wired August 23, 2007 John Robb |
When Bots Attack If you want to bring down a country's information infrastructure and you don't want anyone to know who did it, the weapon of choice is a distributed denial of service attack. |
InternetNews August 7, 2009 |
Facebook, Twitter Attacks Aimed for One User An anti-Russian blogger with profiles on a number of sites may have been the intended target of yesterday's attack. |
InternetNews August 6, 2009 |
Twitter Goes Down in Denial-of-Service Attack Microblogging service Twitter this morning suffered downtime due to what company officials described as a denial-of-service attack. |
InternetNews August 14, 2009 |
Twitter Used as Botnet Control As bot herders learn to exploit legitimate sites, researchers warn that IT managers will need to monitor social media closely. |
InternetNews April 27, 2009 Alex Goldman |
Conficker Awakens With Scareware and Spam The new activity on the Conficker botnet shows that the criminal economy is functioning well. |
InternetNews December 16, 2008 Sean Michael Kerner |
'Shockers' in Cisco's Year-End Security Report But it's what didn't make it into the report that could be even more revealing. |
InternetNews May 18, 2007 Sean Michael Kerner |
Estonia Under Russian Cyber Attack? Data by a security research firm clearly shows that a full-scale assault is under way, but the attackers' identity and location is still uncertain. |
Wired November 2006 Scott Berinato |
Attack of the Bots The latest threat to the Net: autonomous software programs that combine forces to perpetrate mayhem, fraud, and espionage on a global scale. How one company fought the new Internet mafia - and lost. |
InternetNews August 6, 2009 |
Did Koobface Cause Twitter, Facebook Outages? A new variant of the widespread Internet worm Koobface made its debut today - just as Twitter and Facebook were hit by denial-of-service attacks. |
Fast Company Pavithra Mohan |
Twitter Now Alerts Users To State-Sponsored Attacks More than 20 users received a notice saying their Twitter accounts were among "a small group of accounts that may have been targeted by state-sponsored actors." |
PC Magazine August 7, 2009 Lance Ulanoff |
Twitter's Down and It's All Your Fault The micro-blogging service's difficulties are troubling. Why it's suffering through a DDoS attack is even more upsetting. |
InternetNews August 10, 2009 |
Cyberattacks' Aftershocks Hit the Web Twitter and Facebook have since bounced back from the the spam and the denial-of-service storm that hit them late last week, but the aftereffects continue to be felt across the Internet. |
InternetNews March 17, 2006 Sean Michael Kerner |
Botnets on The Run? Security researchers have identified numerous botnets of zombies in recent days and in at least one case ended their reign of the undead. |
Bank Systems & Technology September 15, 2007 Sharon Gaudin |
Number Of Hackers Attacking Banks Jumps 81% Hackers no longer need to be technical wizards to set up an operation to steal people's banking information and then rob their accounts. |
InternetNews February 9, 2010 |
McAfee Finds Spike In Malware From China A new study by security software vendor McAfee finds a growing number of cyber attacks originating in China and predicts even more malware scams will target fans of popular social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter. |
InternetNews May 26, 2006 Tim Scannell |
Jamie de Guerre, Director, Partner Programs, Cloudmark Spam isn't going anywhere, and Jamie de Guerre's company is tracking its trails through our inboxes. |
InternetNews December 30, 2009 |
Twitter Blacklists 370 Shoddy Passwords To protect its users from themselves, Twitter is preventing new users from selecting some common or easily hacked passwords for their accounts. |
InternetNews February 17, 2009 Sean Gallagher |
Social Networks a Magnet for Malware Just like the crooks robbed the banks because that's where the money is, malware will go where the people are. |
PC World May 2001 Kim Zetter |
Hacker Nation Shadowy, computer-wise predators slip in undetected to steal data, deface Web sites, crash systems--or just look around. We talk to some current and former hackers to find out more about them and what they're after... |
InternetNews February 25, 2009 Richard Adhikari |
Online Trust Takes a Hit in Gmail Chat Phishing Security experts are warning that a phishing attack on Google's Gmail's chat feature not only poses a danger to users, but could be a harbinger of things to come. |
InternetNews March 28, 2005 Tim Gray |
Alliance Formed to Finger Hackers The Fingerprint Sharing Alliance, an initiative comprised of global communications service providers, attempts to decrease the number of Internet attacks. |
InternetNews February 2, 2009 Richard Adhikari |
Are Legitimate Sites the Next Malware Threat? Businesses may be exposing their customers to malware by leaving their sites unpatched, IBM warns in a new study. |
Wired August 21, 2007 Joshua Davis |
Hackers Take Down the Most Wired Country in Europe How Estonia dealt with a botnet strike that targeted almost every digital front all at once. |
Wall Street & Technology January 5, 2007 Larry Tabb |
Preparing for the Inevitable While electronic thefts can be cleaner, less physical and certainly less bloody, the chance of getting money out of a brokerage or bank illegally is usually greater with a gun than a computer. But as the criminals and terrorists get smarter, we too must raise the bar. |
PC World May 23, 2001 Frank Thorsberg |
Sizing Up Cybervandalism: Thousands Hit Monthly Researchers find debilitating hacker attacks cross borders to hit big and small targets... |
PC Magazine October 1, 2003 Brett Glass |
Don't Let Your PC Become a Porn Zombie Protect your computer from takeover. We tell you how. |
InternetNews June 16, 2009 Alex Goldman |
Could Twitter Top Google? Twitter can deliver more traffic and better traffic than any search engine, at least according to backer and venture capitalist Fred Wilson. |
Wall Street & Technology September 17, 2007 Melanie Rodier |
Online Security Attacks Against Financial Institutions Rapidly Increasing Gone are the days of teenagers sitting in their parents' basements trying to hack into a company's computer system just to prove a point. Today, hacking is an organized crime enterprise -- and it is bigger than ever. |
BusinessWeek August 22, 2005 Grow & Hamm |
From Black Market To Free Market Frustrated computer-security firms are offering to buy tips from the very hackers who bedevil them. |
PC World October 24, 2007 Erik Larkin |
The Internet's Public Enemy Number One The Storm Worm has infected so many machines that it's now one of the most powerful supercomputers. |
InternetNews January 22, 2010 |
Twitter Says Flash Flaw's Been Fixed Researcher had alerted Twitter to a flaw he said could expose user's accounts. |
Entrepreneur June 2010 Ericka Chickowski |
Protect Your Small Business Against Cyber Attacks Cybercrime costs the economy more than $1 trillion per year, and crooks are increasingly setting their sights on small businesses. A look at the most destructive threats to your network - and what you need to do about them. |
InternetNews January 19, 2011 |
New Type of Denial of Service Attack Emerging Researchers detail a new kind of more sophisticated DoS attack at this week's Black Hat security conference. |
InternetNews June 8, 2009 Alex Goldman |
Symantec Says Phishers Have New Tools Automated toolkits are making it easier to attack services such as Facebook, Twitter and financial services brands. |
InternetNews September 25, 2009 |
Twitter URLs Again Under Siege by Hackers Hackers are taking advantage of the popular microblogging site's limitations to spread malware. |
InternetNews June 3, 2009 Alex Goldman |
Scareware Arrives on Twitter in Latest Attack As new Web 2.0 threats proliferate, business IT departments struggle with basic tasks such as patch management. |
InternetNews March 30, 2004 Ryan Naraine |
Malicious Cisco Code Circulating The release of a hacking toolkit to exploit security holes in Cisco products has sent the networking giant scrambling. |
National Defense October 2009 Jean & Erwin |
Research Detects Spamming Attacks Researchers at Microsoft have developed a system to detect botnet attacks on Web email providers |
The Motley Fool July 13, 2009 Rich Smith |
Welcome! You've Got Hackers! Someone threw a cyber war this week. It's great to know that the government is spending billions hardening the IT system against more competent attackers, but what we really need here is a solution to the real problem: Identifying who the attackers are. |
National Defense July 2007 Breanne Wagner |
Experts Downplay Imminent Threat of Cyberterrorism U.S. officials are worried about the threat of a terrorist attack against civilian and government computer systems, but experts say any attack by cyber terrorists is likely to be non-debilitating worms and viruses. |
InternetNews September 16, 2009 Larry Barrett |
Hackers Targeting Web 2.0 Sites at Alarming Rate Security software vendor Websense claims 95 percent of user-generated comments on blogs and message boards are either spam or contain malicious code. |
Popular Mechanics February 2006 Brian Krebs |
It's 10 PM. Do You Know Where Your Identity Is? Global identity thieves may know their way around your computer better than you do. Learn how to protect yourself in the scary new world of zombies, RATs, Trojan horses and evil twins. |
InternetNews November 4, 2005 Tim Gray |
Botnet Zombie Maker Faces 50 Years Federal Authorities have arrested and charged a California man with hijacking hundreds of thousands of computers and creating a vast zombie network that launched denial of service attacks and spewed spam. |
InternetNews September 21, 2010 |
Twitter Hit With Mouseover Malware Attack Twitter hit with attack that sees hackers embed JavaScript within URLs in tweets that display a pop-up directing users to malicious or pornographic websites. |
InternetNews June 1, 2004 Colin C. Haley |
AT&T on DoS: Early Detection Equals Prevention The carrier introduces a new service to thwart denial-of-service attacks on corporate systems. |
Bank Systems & Technology February 18, 2010 Penny Crosman |
Q&A: Alex Cox, Discoverer of Today's Massive Botnet Attack Data security expert Alex Cox tells how banks can protect themselves against the Kneber botnet he discovered, which has infected 75,000 computers at 2,500 organizations around the world, and which is still active. |
PC World April 2, 2001 Kim Zetter & Andrew Brandt |
How Hackers Hack The tricks hackers use, and what you can do to foil them... |
InternetNews February 2, 2010 |
Twitter Responds to Phishing Attack Twitter's popularity has once again made it the target of the bad guys. |