DDoS Attackers Change Techniques To Wallop Sites
Criminals behind distributed denial of service attacks are relying less on traditional botnets and more on techniques capable of launching larger assaults on websites.Prolexic Technology, which is...
View ArticleSelf-taught hackers rule
Ilia Kolochenko, CEO of High-Tech Bridge, a Swiss information security company, gave the keynote address on governments’ role in cybersecurity this past Sunday at the Regional cybersecurity Summit in...
View ArticleActivism's slippery slope: Anonymous targets children's hospital
Supporters of the faceless collective known as Anonymous have taken up the cause of a young girl, after the State of Massachusetts removed her from her parents earlier this year. However, the methods...
View ArticleUS Navy sysadmin charged with 'Team Digi7al' hacktivist attacks on military
A sysadmin who worked in the nuclear reactor department of a US warship used his privileged access to hack Navy databases before boasting of the exploits on Twitter, US Government prosecutors have...
View ArticleAjax Security Team: Are they Iran's latest threat?
FireEye released a report on Tuesday, focusing on a group from Iran known as the Ajax Security Team (AST). Explaining their focus, FireEye said that the group's methods have "grown more consistent...
View ArticleThe sorry state of cybercrime
What can I say? Attempts to defeat cybercrime are failing…miserably. We recently completed the 2014 U.S. State of Cybercrime survey with our survey partners at the U.S. Secret Service, the Software...
View ArticlePeter Sunde: Pirate Bay co-founder arrested in Sweden
Eight years after authorities raided a hosting company in order to confiscate servers used to run The Pirate Bay (TPB), arguably the world's largest source for links to legal and illegal Torrent...
View ArticleAmerican Express issues alert after Anonymous dumps cardholder data
In a letter to the California Attorney General's Office (OAG), American Express says that 76,608 people in the state will get a breach notification letter after some of their data was published by...
View ArticleInside an attack by the Syrian Electronic Army
A follow-up to this story can be found here.The Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) has become a bit of a name brand as far as low-level hacking groups are concerned. Their methods are simple, but effective....
View ArticleFollow-up: Syrian Electronic Army responds to attack article
Earlier this week, Salted Hash published a first-hand account of an attack by the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) against IDG Enterprise. Later that same day, one of the group's members responded.The...
View ArticleHow to use a cyber war exercise to improve your security program
You may have missed it, but a few weeks ago a small cyber war played out in just 72 hours. Just after 6pm (PDT) on Sunday, May 18th, the first moves were made. The whole event was over by Wednesday...
View ArticleHacker coalition sets out to improve critical device security, challenges car...
A collective of security researchers issued a letter Friday from the DefCon hacker conference in Las Vegas urging the automotive industry to adopt five principles for building safer computer systems...
View ArticleSony says 'high traffic' downs PlayStation, Entertainment networks
Sony said Sunday that 'high traffic' downed its PlayStation and Entertainment networks, with the group claiming responsibility also apparently involved in a security threat concerning a flight...
View ArticleDDoS Attackers Change Techniques To Wallop Sites
Criminals behind distributed denial of service attacks are relying less on traditional botnets and more on techniques capable of launching larger assaults on websites.Prolexic Technology, which is...
View ArticleSelf-taught hackers rule
Ilia Kolochenko, CEO of High-Tech Bridge, a Swiss information security company, gave the keynote address on governments’ role in cybersecurity this past Sunday at the Regional cybersecurity Summit in...
View ArticleActivism's slippery slope: Anonymous targets children's hospital
Supporters of the faceless collective known as Anonymous have taken up the cause of a young girl, after the State of Massachusetts removed her from her parents earlier this year. However, the methods...
View ArticleUS Navy sysadmin charged with 'Team Digi7al' hacktivist attacks on military
A sysadmin who worked in the nuclear reactor department of a US warship used his privileged access to hack Navy databases before boasting of the exploits on Twitter, US Government prosecutors have...
View ArticleAjax Security Team: Are they Iran's latest threat?
FireEye released a report on Tuesday, focusing on a group from Iran known as the Ajax Security Team (AST). Explaining their focus, FireEye said that the group's methods have "grown more consistent...
View ArticleThe sorry state of cybercrime
What can I say? Attempts to defeat cybercrime are failing…miserably. We recently completed the 2014 U.S. State of Cybercrime survey with our survey partners at the U.S. Secret Service, the Software...
View ArticlePeter Sunde: Pirate Bay co-founder arrested in Sweden
Eight years after authorities raided a hosting company in order to confiscate servers used to run The Pirate Bay (TPB), arguably the world's largest source for links to legal and illegal Torrent...
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