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Georgia President's web site under DDoS attack from Russian hackers

Georgia President's web site under DDoS attack from Russian hackersOh, its about the *another* Georgia.Is about the ex-commie Georgia and not the Ted Turner Birthplace.Anyways, a ddos attack can be done even for a single person, so there are not a real point to escalate this conflict in a full...

Tags: Web site development, distributed denial of service, Russian Hackers, Web site, Web

Discussion threads 2008-07-23

300 Lithuanian sites hacked by Russian hackers

300 Lithuanian sites hacked by Russian hackersSuggestionThe Lithuanian government should force their telcos to block all IP blocks that are allocated to Russia.If there is such animosity, blocking the Russian chunk of the internet would be a good start.Then at the very least, the hackers would have to use western...

Tags: Hacking, PRODUCTIVITY, Cyberthreats, Spyware, adware & malware, SECURITY, Lithuanian, Lithuanian site, Russian Hackers

Discussion threads 2008-07-02

Russian hackers planning attacks against Baltic countries and Ukraine

Russian hackers planning attacks against Baltic countries and UkraineGet a job!Here's some advice for the hackers... put your skills to work and do something with your life.

Tags: SECURITY, Russian Hackers, Baltic

Discussion threads 2008-06-26

IBM denies re-entering PC market with Russian deal

IBM denies re-entering PC market with Russian dealMatter of sematics?Seems to me that if you're selling PC architecture machines running whatever OS, then you're in the PC business. However, enough people use the term "PC" to refer specifically to x86 machines running an MS operating system that IBM execs...

Tags: Linux, Desktops, SECURITY, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Looks like Linux, IBM Corp., Lenovo Group Ltd., Russian deal, secure, PC, LINUX IS, PC Market, Russian Hackers

Discussion threads 2008-03-10

News to know: Yang's Yahoo to-do list; Russian hackers; So long Office 2003

News to know: Yang's Yahoo to-do list; Russian hackers; So long Office 2003Broken link!I clicked on a link to "10 things wrong with touch screens" and ended up here. Second time in as many days that I've been misdirected to the "Between the Lines' page when clicking on a...

Tags: Russian Hackers, Yang, Microsoft Office 2003, Microsoft Office, Yahoo! Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-06-19

Russian hackers hawked Windows exploit for $4,000

Russian hackers hawked Windows exploit for $4,000People still don't get it...One of the best protections is heterogeny. The WMF exploit was an example of how fragile a single culture ecosystem can be.Tired of image library issueson any platform, tired of buffer overflow, tired of the bashing, the back and forth...

Tags: Russian Hackers, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2006-02-03

Additional Resources

Open source scores small victory at White House

Yeah Chinese, Russian, and Al Qaeda programmersand hackers world wide. Lets all hope against hope that the whitehouse is smart enough to isolate these servers from the rest and not put anything sensitive on them...RE: Open source scores small victory at White HouseWell this article is pretty uninformative with the...

Tags: White House, open source, Well this article

Discussion threads 2009-10-26

Chinese hackers launch targeted attacks against foreign correspondents

According to an assessment published by the Information Warfare Monitor, Chinese hacktivists politically motivated hackers have recently launched a targeted malware attack against foreign news correspondents attempting to trick them into executing a malware-embedded PDF attachment (Interview list.pdf), coming from a non-existent editor working for The Straits Times. ...

Tags: China, Malware, Hacker, Attack, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2009-09-29

Gonzales just tip of iceberg in Heartland attack

Feet on the street?In a crime where tens of thousands of credit card numbers and identifying information is stolen remotely from poorly configured databases, then sold on-line to other criminals, who then, presumably, use that information either for identity theft or straight credit card fraud, just where do you need...

Tags: SECURITY, Viet Nam, Gonzales

Discussion threads 2009-08-19

Gonzales just tip of iceberg in Heartland attack

Albert Gonzales, previously accused of breaking into TJX's computer systems, was indicted on charges that a separate group he was involved in breached Heartland Payment Systems. Also indicted but unidentified and still at large were "Hacker 1" and "Hacker 2," labels that suggest Thing 1 and...

Tags: SQL, SQL Injection, Attack, Albert Gonzales, Security, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-08-18

Russia cooperated with hackers in Georgian cyberattack

A report from the nonprofit US Cyber Consequences Unit confirms what only made sense about last year's cyber attack on Georgia. It was carried about by independent groups with a special relationship to the Russian government. As InfoWeek relates, the report concludes: "Many of the cyber attacks...

Tags: Cyberattack, Hacker, Attack, Hacking, Government, Viruses And Worms, Security, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-08-17

Panel: too much to lose by moving to generic services and cloud?

It's basically the same pattern . . .It's basically the same pattern I've seen all the time: New technology comes around, people clamor over it and predict it will replace the "old" tech, the old tech ends up being better than the new tech in some ways, and they end...

Tags: Virtualization, Storage, cloud computing

Discussion threads 2009-08-10

Did Russians attack Twitter over pro-Georgian blogger?

Russian Hackers - Russian Submarines clearly a msg is being sentMore concerned about Russian Cyber thieves at the present time than Russian Submarines recent events. Seems there are both Russian government and non-government actors.--- They are compromising computers around the world (India, South America, Africa,...) that have weak security and...

Tags: Blogging, SECURITY, pro-Georgian, pro-Georgian blogger, attack, Twitter, blogger

Discussion threads 2009-08-07

Did Russians attack Twitter over pro-Georgian blogger?

It was one year ago today that Russia invaded Georgia over the South Ossetia region. Yesterday someone unleashed a massive botnet DDOS attack on Twitter, Facebook and Google. The crash of Twitter under this onslaught was the big story yesterday. Now it seems the whole thing was an attack on...

Tags: Facebook, Twitter, Blogger, Attack, Security, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-08-07

Has government red-tape and politics hurt cybersecurity efforts?

Governmental red tape - and probably some Washington politics, as well - has prompted the White House's senior cybersecurity aide to resign, according to reports. Her reason: delays in appointing a national cybersecurity czar. Melissa E. Hathaway, who was also a cybersecurity aide during the Bush years,...

Tags: Government, Cybersecurity, Security, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-08-04

Secunia: Average insecure program per PC rate remains high

Secunia: Average insecure program per PC rate remains highGeneralizations are always bad ;)I see Secunia quoted as saying "Failing to do so is playing Russian Roulette with your IT security ? it is only a question about time ? and luck ? when your system will be compromised."Yes, patching is...

Tags: Linux, Web browsers, Operating systems, PC, Secunia PSI, Secunia, insecure program

Discussion threads 2009-06-25

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

Russian antitrust unit targets Microsoft over XP availability

Russian antitrust unit targets Microsoft over XP availabilityThe real reason Russia wants XP to remainMy guess is that the Russians are attempting to keep the older, less secure operating systems around as they have spent a great deal of time and money learning to hack those systems. Heaven forbid if...

Tags: Operating systems, SECURITY, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows XP, XP availability, operating system, antitrust unit, antitrust

Discussion threads 2009-06-04

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

Bad, bad, cybercrime-friendly ISPs!

Bad, bad, cybercrime-friendly ISPs!Why easy obvioussolution are never used.Cut the crooked ISPs from the net until they have cleaned they act. but since they are clearly criminal in nature a instant life time ban will doif an ISP host a malicious website/file and do not remove it right away after...

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Peer to peer (P2P), Internet Service Provider, P2P, cybercrime-friendly ISP

Discussion threads 2009-03-04