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16 year Old Dutch Boy Arrested for WikiLeak Attacks
Dutch authorities arrested a 16-year-old boy on Wednesday in relation to the cyberattacks against Visa, MasterCard and PayPal, which were aimed at punishing those companies for cutting off services to...
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What Does The April 2011 Oracle CPU Mean For DBAs And Database Security Staff?
I can’t believe it’s been three months already since Oracle released their last Critical Patch Update (CPU). This week, Oracle released the 26th CPU, with 73 new security fixes across 10 product...
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Anonymous Said To Be Unstoppable — But For The Wrong Reasons
Late on Friday afternoon, Nicole Perlroth of the New York Times posted a piece to the ‘Bits’ blog titled, “Anonymous Says It Knocked C.I.A. Offline”. Within the post, in reference to the latest...
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Arrest Made, Charged For Denial-Of-Service Attacks Against Amazon.com
Officials at the U.S. Department of Justice announced that a Russian man has been arrested in Cyprus in connection with attacks on Amazon.com. The man, Dmitry Olegovich Zubakha, 25, of Moscow, was...
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In The Latest Of The Recent Denial-Of-Service Bank Attacks, HSBC Falls Victim
Capital One, HSBC, Bank of America, Wells Fargo are among the near-dozen financial Websites hit by distributed denial-of-service attacks over the past few weeks. These attacks have disrupted daily...
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Security Events In 2012 May Indicate What’s To Come In 2013
For all the apocalyptic prognostications, 2012 turned out to be a relatively uneventful year from an information security standpoint. A cyber Pearl Harbor did not happen. Stuxnet and its kin did not...
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