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Web host and domain name registry Network Solutions reports that all of its systems are working today following two denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks earlier this week. The first DDoS attack hit their services Monday afternoon, June 21, while a consecutive attack occurred on Tuesday morning, June 21.
A laptop from the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) containing 8.6
million patient records has gone missing, prompting warnings from UK
authorities.
The technique hackers used to break into Citigroup’s network last month was at once clever and simpler than security researchers expected, a report from the New York Times says.
Turkish authorities have arrested 32 members of the hacking group Anonymous according to the country’s state news agency.
Today’s Image of the Day comes from web security firm Imperva, who’ve crafted an infographic to accompany their monthly Hacker Intelligence Initiative report on search engine poisoning (SEP).
Oracle has pushed an update to its popular Java SE platform by patching 17 vulnerabilities, all which could allow an attacker to remotely exploit a machine without authentication.
A new attack on Facebook has been making the rounds this week, thanks in part to the social networking service’s ‘Like’ feature – and both Mac and Windows users are vulnerable.
Honda Canada Inc. has announced it was the victim of an attack in March that exposed the records of over 283,000 car owners, potentially putting them at risk of targeted scams.
“Follow the money” – it was good advice for Woodward and Bernstein in their investigation of the Watergate scandal. It turns out to be good advice for those wishing to stamp out spam e-mail, also.
The Norwegian military has admitted it was hit by a “massive” phishing cyber attack in March, according to a report from Techworld.com.
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