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- Threat Hierarchy
- I used to do a lot of breakfast seminars. Well, I still do a lot of breakfast seminars. But I used to have a slide that depicted the threat hierarchy. It was a list from low threat to high threat. I did not create it. I am sure...
- Tags: Information Warfare, Hacktivism, Experimentation
- Blog posts 2005-10-10
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- Pro-Serbian hacktivists attacking Albanian web sites
- The rise of pro-Kosovo web site defacement groups was marked in April, 2008, with a massive web site defacement spreading pro-Kosovo propaganda. The ongoing monitoring of pro-Kosovo hacking groups indicates an ongoing cyberwar between pro-Serbian supporting hacktivists successfully defacing Albanian sites, and building up capabilities by releasing a list of...
- Tags: Web, Web Site, Web Site Defacement, Hacking Group, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Channel Management, Hacking, Security, Internet, Marketing, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-05-20
- Recent CNN Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack explained
- According to Netcraft: "The CNN News website has twice been affected since an earlier distributed denial of service attack last Thursday. CNN fixed Thursday's attack by limiting the number of users who could access the site from specific geographical areas. Subsequently, an attack was purportedly organised to...
- Tags: Denial Of Service, Distributed Denial Of Service, CNN, Attack, Danchev, Security, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-04-23
- Cyber Defcon 4
- I am preparing my next road show pitch. My past presentations have followed a pattern. There is one slide I have been using for seven years now, ever since I joined Gartner as an analyst as a matter of fact. It is the Threat Hierarchy slide. It lists...
- Tags: Attack, Security, Richard Stiennon
- Blog posts 2008-01-14
- Hactivism or information warfare?
- Just as the term "cyber terrorism" gets linguists all riled up, "information warfare" is sure to elicit the wrath of security pundits and bloggers alike. While I will be the first to acknowledge that cyber terrorism is a problematic term (no loss of life or limb from shutting down an...
- Tags: Hacking, SECURITY, information warfare, Estonia
- Blog posts 2007-05-12
- More hacktivism against blogs
- More hacktivism against blogsSpeaking of DDoSThere is an article in the WSJ today about a new ponzi scheme involving websites and viewing ads. I am going to dig into it more and blog it soon. But the interesting thing is the payment processor for many of these sites was the...
- Tags: Blogging, SECURITY, blog, distributed denial of service
- Discussion threads 2006-03-01
- More hacktivism against blogs
- Is no one safe? It appears that hacktivists are exercising their ire against bloggers now. Good luck to them. There are a lot more bloggers than extremist hackers. From the article: "Australian Darren Rowse confirmed that an outage Monday on his ProBlogger weblog was caused by a...
- Tags: Ignore allAdd
- Blog posts 2006-03-01
- Hacktivism: Users in charge
- Hacktivism: Users in chargeWhat makes your hacktivists "better" than China's?It's interesting, many hacks out there seem to get traced back to China. One always wonders if the Chinese government supports these efforts, whether explicitly with funding and resources, or implicitly by ignoring them. If some "hacktivists" in China were...
- Tags: Chinese Government, U.S. Government, Kant
- Discussion threads 2006-02-13
- Hacktivism: Users in charge
- Small projects will punch huge holes in the Great Firewall of China and the Fatwa Barriers of the Middle East. A good article in today's Wall Street Journal summarizes how users are taking the initiative for freedom that major Net companies have shied away from: In response to China's...
- Tags: Vertical industries, government
- Blog posts 2006-02-13
- Don't confuse activity with consolidation
- Don't confuse activity with consolidationEvery time there is an acquisition in the security space the news is trumpeted as a sign of "further consolidation�. Well, to me consolidation means that big companies buy up little ones like blobs of mercury sliding around in a puzzle. (Remember those?) This...
- Tags: consolidation
- Blog posts 2006-01-27
- Hacktivism. Will it evolve?
- This story in the Hindustan Times should give one reason to pause. It relates wide spread attacks against Indian computing including hundreds of webservers at .in domains. Similar to the so called Chinese Hacker Wars of May, 2001. In particular:In the last week of November, international hackers defaced some...
- Tags: attack
- Blog posts 2005-12-12
- Is China attacking military computers? Maybe not.
- Is China attacking military computers? Maybe not.What makes NPR the expert?It is well known that there are large groups of college students in China that actively engage in hacktivism. Japanese networks routinely block all IP traffic from China because of the threat. Recently, the Chinese hacking groups were...
- Tags: SECURITY, hacking, military computer
- Discussion threads 2005-08-25
- Fighting cyberterrorism in wartime
- Fighting cyberterrorism in wartimeCNET's Brian Cooley looks at ways companies should protect their businesses from cyberterrorism and hacktivism during the war against Iraq.
- Tags: SECURITY, cyberterrorism
- Videos 2003-03-25
- Network Security Cyber Threats: Cyber Threats, a Different View
- This paper is concerned with discussing the term "cracker" or "script-kiddie" as a type of life forms that exists on the Internet. The paper will define the cracker or script-kiddie and describe their attitude. Afterwards it will prove that they are the real threat to the cyber community by showing...
- Tags: Network, Threat, Internet, Network Security, Networking, Security
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- Cyber Threats, a Different View
- This paper is concerned with discussing the term "cracker" or "script-kiddie" as a type of life forms that exists on the Internet. The paper will define the cracker or script-kiddie and describe their attitude. Afterwards it will prove that they are the real threat to the cyber community by showing...
- Tags: Threat, Internet
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