The controversial document-sharing site WikiLeaks was back online Monday evening after sustaining a week-long distributed denial-of-service attack.
The organization apparently received some extra capacity and assistance from Web performance and security firm Cloudfare to counter the 10 gigabits per second of bogus traffic that overwhelmed servers for numerous WikiLeaks domains and several supporters’ sites.
Video game publisher Blizzard, makers of Diablo III, World of Warcraft and other wildly popular games, is urging account holders on North American servers to change their passwords after the company’s security team this week discovered someone illegally accessed the internal network.
One of the more pernicious and as-yet incurable diseases in security is the resistance to sharing data. Organizations large and small collect all sorts of information on attacks, vulnerabilities and threats and, for the most part, it simply sits in databases and is never of any use to anyone outside of the organization. But there’s an effort underway at the Georgia Tech Research Institute to change that through the use of a new information-gathering and analysis system called Titan.
One of the men authorities allege to have been behind the massive–and now dead–Mariposa botnet, has gone on trial in Slovenia, more than two years after the initial arrests and takedown of the network.
There are a lot of things that the United States is no longer so good at doing: eating vegetables or winning major marathons, for example. But one thing that the U.S. still does really well is provide comfortable hosting platforms for phishing sites. In fact, about 60 percent of all phishing sites are hosted in the U.S., and no other country had more than seven percent, according to a new report.
A British teenager has been sentenced to six months in jail after pleading guilty to illegally accessing the Gmail account of a former top aide to former Prime Minister Tony Blair. Junaid Hussain was allegedly a member of the TeamPoison hacking crew and had posted some of Blair’s personal information online after the attack.
LAS VEGAS–The Black Hat conference is now officially an adolescent, and like most in that age group, it has gone through some growing pains in its life. Once criticized for giving too much of a platform for offensive research, and then, after its sale a few years ago to a media conglomerate, dinged for being too corporate, Black Hat now seems to have settled into a nice, comfortable spot with high-quality research and talks from top government officials.
Black Hat is upon us and, with it, a lot of chatter about the dangers posed by so-called “APT,” or advanced persistent threats. Rather than get trapped in the hype bubble, Threatpost editor Paul Roberts took the opportunity to check back in with a recognized expert on detecting and combating APT-style attacks: Amit Yoran, the former CEO of NetWitness Corp. and now a Senior Vice President at RSA, The Security Division of EMC. Yoran says that the darkest days may yet be ahead in the fight against APT style attacks, with mounting attacks and a critical shortage of security talent. To cope, both private sector firms and the government need to stop fighting the last war and pivot to the kinds of practices and monitoring that can spot sophisticated attackers.
The popular social sharing site Pinterest is addressing an uptick in suspected hacks by temporarily locking down suspicious accounts and forcing those users to create more unique passwords.
A hacker affiliated with a group called TeamGhostShell claims he hacked into a website servicing IT professionals seeking jobs on Wall Street, and in doing so compromised the personal information of thousands of job applicants, according to a ComputerWorld report.
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