Infection began with a windscreen flyer
Blog A malware infection was propagated through flyers put on windscreens in Grand Forks, North Dakota, reports SANS institute. The flyers were fake parking violation notices, and instructed people to visit a website (which SANS did not publicise).
[February 4, 2009, 16:35 in News Blog by Tom Espiner]
Tech charity quits Burma following government blocks
Blog I have just received an update that Telecoms Sans Frontieres, a charity that specialises in setting up telecoms equipment in disaster zones has quit Burma in the face of repeated attempts to block its activity by the government.
[June 25, 2008, 15:58 in News Blog by Andrew Donoghue]
Patchy internet problems, Google role uncertain
Blog Gmail is also having problems, according to numerous Twitter users around the world and Sans Institute. There are reports that Google users are having some problems with Google services, and that there are packet losses in New York, San Francisco...
[May 14, 2009, 17:20 in News Blog by Tom Espiner]
Indian officials accuse China of cyber attacks
Blog The Times of India claim echoed comments made to me at the recent Infosecurity Europe 2008 by Alan Paller, the director of research for the SANS Institute, who said that 25 countries were all engaged in some form of cyber intelligence gathering...
[May 6, 2008, 12:38 in News Blog by Tom Espiner]
