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Blog site back up after hack attack
News Credit card data, for instance, is kept on a different sever from the one that was attacked, he said. Pyra sparked up its popular Blogger.com site again Friday after shutting it down earlier in the day in response to a hacker attack.
[October 28, 2002, 9:11]
Cisco flaw presentation spreads across the Web
News Security guru Bruce Schneier also attacked Cisco's behaviour, calling the company "thugs". Security expert Richard Forno, founder of the infowarrior.org Web site, said that Cisco's "heavy-handed tactics" have helped publicise the vulnerability.
[August 1, 2005, 16:00]
Hackers put Net security watchdog out of action
News We get attacked every day," says Richard D. The attack began around 9am on Tuesday and continued to stall traffic to the organisation's Web site Wednesday. The www.cert.org Web site may be unavailable until the attack begins to subside.
[May 24, 2001, 9:30]
Russian hackers 'sold WMF exploit'
News The British Parliament was attacked by hackers http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/security/0,39020375,39248387,00.htm" title="Hackers attacked parliament using WMF exploit">who tried to exploit the WMF flaw.
[February 3, 2006, 8:30]
New Outlook bug can sting with spam
News The vulnerability in Microsoft's Outlook email program has widespread implications: Until now, victims had to willingly open an email attachment, or at least view a specially formed email message, to be attacked.
[July 19, 2000, 9:05]
Antivirus holes zipped up
News But if you know that five million computers have been attacked you would tend to believe the security researchers," said Campbell. A spokesperson for the company said vulnerable products will automatically update today and a fix will be available...
[October 20, 2004, 9:30]
Web outage blamed on zombies
News We assumed they were attacked as a way to get at Akamai. Such a distributed denial-of-service, or DDoS, attack can block access to a Web site for several hours or even days. Earlier this year, the main Web site of the SCO Group was crippled after...
[June 17, 2004, 9:35]
Online extortion victim speaks out
News They'd attacked us with 155Mb of data. The founder of an online payment system has spoken out about his experience of being targeted by Russian gangsters who threatened to destroy his Web site and his business if he didn't pay them $10,000.
[May 31, 2005, 12:40]
Oracle Applications vulnerable to Web attack
News Customers with Internet-facing application servers are most vulnerable because they can be attacked remotely by anyone who has a browser. Oracle Corporation has announced a security flaw in Oracle Applications 11i that allows an attacker to carry...
[June 10, 2004, 14:25]
Anti-war hackers strike the US Navy
News Among those attacked are a number of US military sites, as well as commercial and political properties. Perhaps most notably, the US Navy Web site was hacked by an activist called Apocalypse. The message posted on the site read: "No War, U.S.A...
[March 21, 2003, 17:17]
Four out of five Web sites fail cyberattack test
News Ajoy says organisations need to implement the appropriate technology, as firewalls alone are not going to protect a site from being attacked. Out of three million Web sites tested worldwide, 80 percent have been given the thumbs down when it comes...
[May 3, 2001, 15:30]
Hackers strike at CERT tracking site
News We get attacked every day," Richard D. The Computer Emergency Response Team's Coordination Center, an important national clearinghouse for computer-security information, came under attack on Wednesday, leaving its main Web site only intermittently...
[December 6, 2001, 8:53]
Lycos launches anti-spam zombie army
News On its Web site, Lycos, which claims to have an army of more than 66,000 computers, says it has already attacked several Web sites, slowing one down by 85 percent of its operating speed. Lycos is offering its customers a screensaver that helps to...
[November 30, 2004, 12:55]
Microsoft issues alert on three 'critical' flaws
News Although critical, the latest vulnerabilities are far less likely to become fodder for a worm writer because a victim would have to go to an attacker-owned Web page to be attacked. The patch is available from Microsoft's Web site.
[August 21, 2003, 8:45]
Herbless the hacker supports petrol protest
News Last week he attacked Legoland and lashed out at the Motion Picture Association of America over the DeCSS legal battle. The latest attack comes just a few days after the OPEC Web site was defaced over petrol prices in Europe.
[September 15, 2000, 10:11]
Researchers shed light on DoS attacks
News Online hooligans attacked Microsoft in January with a similar attack, causing headaches for the company over a two-day period. When a computer is attacked, it generally can't determine that the sent data is bogus, so it attempts to reply to...
[May 23, 2001, 9:02]
Firms urged to use unauthorised Windows patch
News Users need only visit a compromised or fake Web site to be attacked. Hackers are increasingly using a wider variety of techniques to penetrate corporate defences with attacks launched through different vectors including spam, IM worms, and defaced...
[January 3, 2006, 16:10]
Cyber-extortionists 'cost UK bookmakers £40m'
News Earlier this year one UK bookmaker, who wished to remain anonymous, said his firm had been attacked several times. The gangs would typically contact the online firms through a customer-service email address on the Web site with a demand for between...
[July 30, 2004, 10:55]
Trojan poses as fake Lycos screensaver
News Whoever is behind this is someone who felt they were being attacked by Lycos. A lot of people heard about the screensaver but couldn't download it because the ["Make love not spam"] Web site was down.
[December 7, 2004, 11:00]
DNS recursion leads to nastier DoS attacks
News In less than two months, 1,500 separate IP addresses were attacked using this method, he noted. The goal of a DoS attack is to crash the victim's system or take their Web site offline, as either tries to respond to the requests.
[March 17, 2006, 9:05]
