Blog Service Closed Down by Law Enforcement

A blogging service with approximately 70,000 users has been forced to shut down by an unidentified law enforcement agency.

Blogetery, host to the 70,000 blogs, was taken offline on July 9, disrupting access to the blogs, according to The Register. A statement from the site administrators said the services was “terminated by request of law enforcement officials, due to material hosted on the server,” according to an email sent…

Router Flaws Creates Easily Exploited Vulnerability

A flaw in millions of household routers has provided hackers with an easy access point to hack home networks or hijack websurfing sessions.

Later this month, Craig Heffner, a researcher at security consultancy Seismic, will detail the exploit at a conference in Las Vegas, which effects Linksys, Belkin and Dell, as well as other systems. The flaw is related to a DNS rebinding.

Heffner says he has found a new way…

Cyber Criminals Utilize Social Networks to Control Bots

Researchers at RSA FraudAction Research Lab have recently discovered a banking Trojan being hosted by a public social networking site. Any site which allows users to upload any type of content is vulnerable to the Trojan’s configurations, RSA says.

“The Lab recently traced a social network profile that contained encrypted instructions for a variant of the Brazilian…

Australian Police Open Indian Office

The Australian federal police have opened an office in India to enhance cooperation on counter terrorism and crime issues, including cyber crime, the Times of India reports.

The new center will help to protect citizens from terrorist and cyber threats, according to an Australian police official.

“We are involved in anti-terror operations, so we are establishing this to protect…

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International Agreement on Cyber Moves Forward

A group of 15 countries have agreed to engage one another in ways to combat the growing threats on the Internet. The new agreement is a set of recommendations, it is still representative of a change in U.S. tactics, Robert Knake of the Council on Foreign Relations told the Washington Post.

The group of countries, which includes the United States,…

Indian Army Preps for Cyber War

The Indian military is battling cyber attacks with capabilities of the “highest standard,” according to Indian defense officials. The number and skill of attacks has increased dramatically, defense officials told the Times of India.

“The army is cognizant of the threat to its cyber space from various state and non-state actors. But our network is well secured in compliance…

Commerce and NIST Announce Deployment of Cyber Initiative

Last Friday, the Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced the completion of a cybersecurity initiative in partnership with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and VeriSign.

The announcement surrounds the full deployment of the Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC), which will help to reduce…

Vatican Gets Google-Bombed

The Vatican was Google-bombed this weekend, with users conducting searches for the Vatican being routed to a site called www.pedofilo.com. The website’s name is the Italian word for paedophile, though Italian reports claim the website was based in Mexico, according to The Register.

The attack appears to have been first noticed by the Vatican, which promptly contacted Google. A Google Italy spokesperson told an Italian news organization that Google…

German Arrested for Hacking Webcams

A man was arrested in Germany for allegedly using malware to hack into webcams and spy on young girls, a spokesman with the Aachen state prosecutor said Friday.

The unnamed hacker allegedly tapped into the webcams of some 150 young girls, according to media reports. The hacking was first discovered by Thomas Floß, from the association of data protection advisors, who speaks with school students regarding cyber hygiene.

“I want…