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- Iranian opposition launches organized cyber attack against pro-Ahmadinejad sites
- Approximately 24 hours ago, the Iranian opposition coordinated an ongoing cyber attack that has successfully managed to disrupt access to major pro-Ahmadinejad Iranian web sites, including the President's homepage which continues returning a "The maximum number of user reached, Server is too busy, please try again later..." message. ...
- Tags: Denial Of Service, Web, Server, Web Site, Site, Cyberattack, Distributed Denial Of Service, Tool, Iran, Attack, Presstv.ir, SupportIran.php, Web Site Development, Security, Internet, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-06-15
- Hackers hijack DNS records of high profile New Zealand sites
- Remember the DNS hijackings of such high profile sites such as Comcast, Photobucket, and ICANN/IANA domains that were taking place last year? Similar incidents are still happening. Today, a web site defacement group known as "The Peace Crew" has successfully hijacked the DNS records for high profile...
- Tags: Web, DNS, New Zealand, Web Site, Hacker, Web Site Development, Channel Management, Web Technology, Internet, Marketing, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-04-21
- Chinese hackers deface the Russian Consulate in Shanghai
- That was fast. Chinese hackers collaborating with the Chinese Hacking Union, a two-years old training community for wannabe hackers, hacked and defaced the official web site of the General Consulate of the Russian Federation in Shanghai, PRC in response to the recent accusations that a Russian navy vessel has sank...
- Tags: Web, Russia, Web Site, Hacker, Hacking, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Security, Internet, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-02-23
- Thousands of Israeli web sites under attack
- In the wake of the escalating conflict between Israel and Hamas, it didn't take long before pro-Hamas supporters organized themselves and started to defacing thousands of pro-Israeli web sites in order to use them as vehicles for propaganda -- Israel is meanwhile hijacking TV signals. For the...
- Tags: Web, DNS, Web Site, Israel, Web Site Defacement, Attack, TEAM-Evil, Web Site Development, Channel Management, Web Technology, Hacking, Security, Internet, Marketing, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-01-06
- BBC hit by a DDoS attack
- The British Broadcasting Corporation (bbc.co.uk) was hit by a DDoS attack on Thursday, according to a statement sent to the Inquirer : "In a statement to the INQ, the BBC said the attack originated in a number of different countries but didn't specify which. When the Beeb's techies blocked...
- Tags: British Broadcasting Corp., Distributed Denial Of Service, Attack, Security, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-11-11
- Bill O'Reilly's web site hacked, attackers release personal details of users
- Bill O'Reilly's web site hacked, attackers release personal details of userssmalkl little people who hack and use the same escuseTypical idiot cop :)Wow...Way to stereotype. Lemme guess - you're ex-military, with a crew cut, nasty cigar and a stick up your arse? Does that sound fair? What? That doesn't describe...
- Tags: Web site development, Web technology, Channel management, SECURITY, Bill O'Reilly, attacker, Web site, Web
- Discussion threads 2008-09-24
- Bill O'Reilly's web site hacked, attackers release personal details of users
- In what is slowly turning into a endless loop of hacktivism activities, Bill O'Reilly's BillOreilly.com has been compromised during the weekend, with personal details including passwords in plain text for 205 of the site's members already leaking across Internet forums, as a response to his remarks regarding Wikileaks as a...
- Tags: Web, Password, Attacker, Web Site, Member, BillOreilly.com, Wikileaks, E-mail, Web Site Development, Security, Online Communications, Internet, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-09-24
- Hundreds of Dutch web sites hacked by Islamic hackers
- In what appears to be a mass defacement, where several hundred domains take advantage of a shared hosting provider, starting as of this Friday, an Islamic hacker known as nEt^DeViL -- this is not the NetDevilz team that hijacked the DNS records of the ICANN and Photobucket in June --...
- Tags: Web, Web Site, Hacker, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Channel Management, Hacking, Security, Internet, Marketing, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-08-25
- Katie Moussouris on HOPE 2008: HOPE Springs Eternal
- Guest Editorial by Katie Moussouris of Microsoft If cyberspace is a mass, consensual hallucination, as William Gibson characterized it, then HOPE was a dream manifested in meatspace that would not die. While Hackers On Planet Earth has been running every other year since 1994, it was...
- Tags: Symantec Corp., IP, Tool, Con, Katie Moussouris, Last HOPE, Wiki, Internet, Productivity, Security, Network Technology, Online Communications, Networking, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-28
- 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
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