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Monthly Archives: January 2016
How your servers might support a DDoS attack
The largest scale of internet attacks enlist thousands or tens of thousands of previously hacked computers to simultaneously attack and overwhelm the websites and e-commerce services of selected victims. Whilst there is often media coverage of the victim organizations affected, … Continue reading
Anonymous claims responsibility for hacking of Michigan State website
Online Hacking Collective Anonymous Hacks Michigan State Website To Avenge Flint Water Crisis. Calling it an act of revenge for the ongoing water crisis in Flint, the international hacking collective, Anonymous claimed on Wednesday to have launched a cyber-attack against … Continue reading
Proposed State Bans on Phone Encryption Make Zero Sense
AMERICAN POLITICS HAS long accepted the strange notion that just a pair of states—namely Iowa and New Hampshire—get an outsize vote in choosing America’s next president. The idea of letting just two states choose whether we all get to have … Continue reading
LulzSec Member Hacks Costa Rica’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Hackers protest against CAFTA trade deal. A hacker affiliated with the LulzSec movement has dumped online data belonging to the Costa Rica Ministry of Culture and Foreign Affairs. The hacker, Hanom1960 (@hanomlulzsec on Twitter), managed to breach the database of the … Continue reading
Magento plugs XSS holes that can lead to e-store hijacking, patch immediately!
Last week, Magento released a very important bundle of patches for their eponymous e-commerce platform that should be implemented as soon as possible. The bundle plugs a number of critical vulnerabilities, including two stored cross-site scripting (XSS) flaws that can … Continue reading
Linux malware: Second screen-grabbing Trojan surfaces in space of a week
Researchers have found Linux malware that appears to target a particular brand of Bitcoin ATM but works “just fine” on Ubuntu. Malware researchers at a Russian security firm have identified a new Trojan for Linux devices that takes screenshots and … Continue reading
AMX fixes backdoor vulnerability 10 months on: Report
A backdoor vulnerability was reportedly found in AMX devices in March, with the manufacturer patching almost a year later. A deliberately hidden backdoor account has been found in AMX by Harman Professional devices that allows attackers to completely compromise an … Continue reading
Errores que pueden hundir una investigación de forense cibernética
Es fácil ver cómo los servicios de auditoría informática (forense digital) utilizados durante una investigación de ataques cibernéticos son similares a los utilizados en la escena del crimen físico. En ambos casos, la evidencia debe ser asegurada y manejada adecuadamente, … Continue reading
People Are Still Terrible at Passwords, But There’s Hope
ANOTHER YEAR, ANOTHER list of the most popular passwords topped by the stalwarts 123456 and password. The rest of the top 10 isn’t much better. But new data from password management company SplashData offers glimpses of a world in which we’re … Continue reading
Russian-Turkish Conflict Spews into Cyberspace with Russian Embassy Hack
The website of the Russian Embassy in Israel has been defaced by Turkish hackers, in one of the latest stages of cyber-war being waged by Turkish hacktivists against Russian authorities. According to Russian news portal Sputnik, the incident took place … Continue reading
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