ISP Outage, Not Hackers, Take Down MasterCard’s Site
UPDATE: An Internet Service Provider outage, not hackers, was to blame for the unavailability of MasterCard’s website early Tuesday morning according to a statement from a company spokesman.
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Mozilla Pushes Firefox 5, Do Not Track Feature, New Development Cycle
With the release of Firefox 5 earlier this week, Mozilla has finally added its Do Not Track privacy feature to the company’s flagship browser. The feature, aimed at customizing how users browsing behavior is tracked is the first of its kind that can be implemented across multiple platforms, including Android phones, according to a post on the Mozilla Blog on Tuesday.
Network Solutions’ Systems Back Online Following DDoS Attacks
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.
