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[Tinker]

Windows Event Viewer phishing scam remains active
10 August 2009, 6:00 pm

What do you get when you combine malware, IP telephony and an offshore call centre? A new breed of brazen phishing scam designed to target unwary Windows users.

Source: Network World on Security

[Tinker]

61% of young adults illegal download music
10 August 2009, 6:00 pm

Nearly two thirds of 14 to 24 year olds illegally download music over peer-to-peer (p2p) networks, says UK Music.

Source: Network World on Security

[Tinker]

Hathaway Resigns From Cybersecurity Czar Post
10 August 2009, 6:00 pm

Melissa Hathaway's decision to step down as acting senior director for cyberspace at the National Security Council could increase pressure on the Obama administration to name a cybersecurity czar.

Source: Network World on Security

[Tinker]

Cybersecurity: Curiouser and curiouser
10 August 2009, 6:00 pm

Gibbs is an aficionado of Carrol's Alice and finds a curious parallel between the administration's cybersecurity office and believing six impossible things.

Source: Network World on Security

[Tinker]

Code Library Bug Is Likely Patch Tuesday Target
10 August 2009, 6:00 pm

This month's Patch Tuesday release will include nine security updates, five of them "critical" and all but one affecting Windows.

Source: Network World on Security

[Tinker]

Twitter Continues to Battle DDoS Attack
10 August 2009, 6:00 pm

More than two days after experiencing a complete outage as a result of a distribute denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, Twitter and other social networking sites such as Facebook are still battling a surge in traffic related to the attack. Twitter has taken some steps to mitigate the spike in traffic and ensure that the site is not knocked offline again, but some of those steps are having an impact on third-party tools that link to Twitter through API's (application programming interface).

Source: Network World on Security

[Tinker]

Twitter Breach Revives Cloud Security Fears
10 August 2009, 6:00 pm

The breach of a hosted Google Apps application used by Twitter employees has heightened concerns over the security of cloud computing systems.

Source: Network World on Security

[Tinker]

Verizon Business to Offer Risk-Based Security Service
10 August 2009, 6:00 pm

Verizon Business announced on Wednesday a new risk-based suite of security tools that include cloud-and-premises-based services. Verizon's Next Generation Managed Security Services Platform is designed to compete with similar offerings from ArcSight and RSA.

Source: Network World on Security

[Tinker]

Twitter Attack Was Another Political DDoS
7 August 2009, 6:00 pm

The distributed denial-of-service attack that hampered access to social networking and blogging sites all went after one pro-Georgia blogger, according to security company reports.

Source: Network World on Security

[Tinker]

App developers stung by Twitter's DOS woes
7 August 2009, 6:00 pm

Developers who built applications for Twitter and generate money from them have been hard-hit by the micro-blogging service's many hours of downtime in the past day, as hackers pummel Twitter with an ongoing denial-of-service attack.

Source: Network World on Security

[Tinker]

Twitter still struggling to recover from DOS attack
7 August 2009, 6:00 pm

The DOS (denial-of-service) attack that crippled Twitter on Thursday is still affecting the micro-blogging service on Friday, the company said in a blog post.

Source: Network World on Security

[Tinker]

Learning Lessons From the Twitter Outage
7 August 2009, 6:00 pm

Unless you have been living in a cave or off the grid for the past 24 hours or so, you are probably aware that Twitter experienced a two-hour outage yesterday morning as a result of a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that overwhelmed its servers. The same attack was also targeted at other sites such as Facebook and Google, but Facebook only experienced performance issues and Google seems to have been relatively unaffected. What can Twitter learn from Facebook or Google to help it handle future attacks without a site outage?

Source: Network World on Security

[rv56]

Consortium proposes a way to secure DNS
7 August 2009, 6:00 pm

A consortium of organisations have banded together to develop software aimed at making it easier for companies to deploy the DNS security standard DNSSEC. A team comprising Nominet, .SE, SIDN (respectively the Swedish and Dutch Internet registries) and various others have combined to produce OpenDNSSEC, software that the developers claim will reduce the pain of implementing DNSSEC.

Source: Network World on Security

[rv56]

Security experts scramble to decipher Twitter attack
7 August 2009, 6:00 pm

Security analysts scrambled to find a motive behind the distributed denial-of-service attacks that brought down Twitter for several hours, and also hit Facebook, Google and LiveJournal.

Source: Network World on Security

[rv56]

Twitter DOS attack targeted Georgian blogger
7 August 2009, 6:00 pm

The denial of service (DOS) attacks which knocked Twitter offline and slowed down Facebook response times yesterday may have been designed to target just one individual.

Source: Network World on Security