A mysterious flood of SSL packets from the Pushdo botnet, possibly an
attempted DDOS attack, is not succeeding, according to the Internet Storm Center.
None of the attacked sites are experiencing significant outages.
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Hackers attempt to dupe NetRegistry customers
Scammers using a Brazilian domain name have targeted customers of large Australian domain… -
Pwn2Own will make Apple look bad
The annual Pwn2Own contest starts today at the CanSecWest conference in Vancouver, Canada… -
Intel says hackers attacked its network in January
Intel Corp. was the target of cyber attacks in January, around the same time of the repor… -
Will enterprise open source adoption trigger malware migration?
Recent reports have detailed Google's actions to phase out the internal use of Microsoft'… -
Tory online experiment foiled as hackers crash ‘Cash Gordon’ website
It was supposed to display how the modern Conservative Party could harness the power of t… -
Experts Call Google Hackers `Amateurs`
While Google called a cyber-attack against its network last January a "highly sophis…
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Targeted attacks replace botnet floods in telco nightmares
Targeted attacks against backend systems have replaced botnet-powered traffic floods as t… -
CIA, PayPal under bizarre SSL assault
The Central Intelligence Agency, PayPal, and hundreds of other organizations are under an… -
Microsoft releases password attack data
Microsoft released data collected from an FTP-server honeypot, showing that attempts to g… -
Brit ISP knocked offline by Latvian DDOS
About 30,000 customers of the Cheshire-based ISP Vispa were forced offline for almost 12 … -
Penetration Testing Grows Up
Penetration testing, once considered a risky practice for the enterprise and even a tool … -
SQL attacks take off in last year
Online attacks against databases have taken off in the past 18 months, according to data …
