Maybe you heard the sound of the world crashing down and people actually being productive at work yesterday while Twitter was unreachable. It wasn’t long before the full explanation came out—the popular microblogging site was the victim of a DoS attack.
Spammers Turning To Targeted Attacks
Spammers are now taking their cue from search engines and advertisers by making their emails more personalized in attempts to steal users information, according to a new security report from Cisco.The report found there was a 90 percent growth in threats coming from legitimate domains, nearly double what was seen in 2007. While targeted spear-phishing represents about 1 percent of all phishing attacks it is on track to become more widespread as savvy criminals personalize spam and make messages appear more credible.
Google Maps Used To Mark Pirate Attacks
Google’s been known to track all sorts of stuff, including search trends, wildfires, and the flu. Now Google Maps and Google Earth are being used to record the locations of what might qualify as an even more interesting thing: pirate attacks.
Akamai: US Home To Attacks, Slow Internet
The content delivery network tapped its resources to produce the first of what will be an ongoing look at the Internet on a quarterly basis.
Major Sites Hit With Iframe Injection Attacks
Security researcher Dancho Danchev cited numerous examples of high profile websites hit by attackers, believed to be part of the infamous Russian Business Network.
Phishing Attacks Increased In 2007
Phishing attacks in the U.S. rose in 2007 as $3.2 billion was lost to these attacks, according to a survey by Gartner.The survey found that 3.6 million adults lost money in phishing attacks in the 12 months ending August 2007, as compared with 2.3 million who did so the previous year. Phishing attacks were more successful in 2007 than they were in the past two years. Of those who received phishing emails in 2007, 3.3 percent said they lost money because of the attack, compared with 2.3 percent who lost money in 2006, and 2.9 percent who did so in 2006.
iPhone Could Be Playground For Attacks
The Metasploit Framework will have iPhone support soon. If that doesn’t mean much to you, consider that some people who use Metasploit for security research may use what they find for malicious purposes.
Variety EIC Attacks Movie Blogs
Longtime Hollywood insider and Variety editor in chief Peter Bart took on the blogosphere and the rights of bloggers with a decidedly negative take; a pair of movie bloggers took him to the editing room and trimmed him down to size.
Telegraph Cluelessly Attacks Google News Indexing
This time it is the UK-based Daily Telegraph that is complaining about a need to protect their content from search engines.
ASP.NET: Easily Block DoS Attacks
Denial of Service (DoS) attacks are becoming a more and more common way to bring websites and servers down.