Dutch police have arrested the teen accused of sowing a period of chaos in national telecoms giant KPN that ended up with the company suspending customer access to 2 million email accounts. Using the nicknames ‘xS’, ‘Yoshioka’ and ‘Yui’, the unamed 17 year-old is accused of launching attacks on a…
Tech firm says NDP vote hit with hundreds of thousands of malicious requests
OTTAWA – The company that ran the NDP leadership vote says more than 10,000 “malevolent” Internet addresses were used in an effort to jam the online voting system in a denial-of-service attack. View full post on Security News Headlines – Yahoo! News View full post on National Cyber Security
Feds Seize Hundreds Of Websites Days Before Superbowl
In what is becoming a ritual much like Superbowl Week itself, federal prosecutors today announced the seizure of 16 websites that offered live streaming of sporting events and 291 others that sold counterfeit … View full post on cyber pirate – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National…
Activists send hundreds of tacos to Conn. mayor
By Michael Melia Associated Press EAST HAVEN, Conn. — The office of East Haven’s mayor was blasted with prank phone calls and a delivery of hundreds of tacos Thursday after his now-famous quip that he would address accusations of anti-Latino bias by eating tacos, a remark that left emotions raw…
Hundreds of Organizations Targeted in Attack That Hit RSA (October 24, 2011)
The attack that hit RSA earlier this year appears to have hit computer systems at other organizations as well……. View full post on SANS NewsBites View full post on National Cyber Security
The Hacker: The only medal I will get is for breaking the ton hundreds of times
Regular readers have long become accustomed to being addressed from the depths of despair, which is where we hackers spend most of our wretched golfing existence. But never have I descended to the depth I sank to last weekend, when in the final monthly medal of the year I accumulated…
Hackers faked security guarantees on hundreds of websites, including CIA, Israel’s Mossad
AMSTERDAM – The Dutch government says hackers who broke into a web security firm in the Netherlands last month issued hundreds of bogus security certificates for websites including the CIA and Israel’s Mossad, as well as Internet giants such as Google, Microsoft and Twitter. The fake certificates co View full…
Hundreds of Go Daddy-hosted sites compromised
Hundreds of Web sites hosted by Go Daddy were found to be compromised this week and were redirecting visitors who’d arrived at the sites from search engines to a site with malware on it, the hosting provider told CNET today. “Wednesday, Go Daddy’s Security Team detected that approximately 445 hosting…
Hundreds of Va. Residents Victims of Credit Card Scam
Hundreds of residents in Winchester and Frederick County have reported being victims of a credit card scam. View full post on credit card scam – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security
Hackers hit security on hundreds of websites, Iran implicated
AMSTERDAM – Hackers who broke into a web security firm issued hundreds of bogus security certificates for spy agency websites including the CIA as well as for Internet giants like Google, Microsoft and Twitter, the Dutch government said Monday. View full post on computer worm – Yahoo! News Search Results…