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Cyber War Part of Kyrgyzstan Ethnic Conflict
Written on 22 Jun, 2010 at 9:59 in Cyber Incidents | viewed 66 views times | 0 Comments
The recent ethnic troubles in Kyrgyzstan have also included attacks in cyberspace against government and media websites, according to Russian cybersecurity experts. The assaults appear to be a result of distributed denial of services (DDoS) attacks which flood websites with illegitimate... (Continue reading)
Banks Under Siege in Eastern Europe
Written on 17 Jun, 2010 at 9:05 in Cyber Incidents | viewed 25 views times | 0 Comments
A group of cyber criminals are placing banks in Russia and the Ukraine under siege with a next-generation exploitation kit that hacks the authentication system and uses a denial of service attack. The attacks use a revised version of BlackEnergy, which... (Continue reading)
Vietnam Accused of Cyber Attacking Bloggers
Written on 9 Jun, 2010 at 8:02 in Cyber Incidents | viewed 84 views times | 0 Comments
The Vietnamese government is being accused of conducting cyber attacks to bring down the websites of independent bloggers, as well as arresting some of the dissidents. Human Rights Watch recently listed a series of arrests and police harassment of web dissidents... (Continue reading)
Get Your Botnet Here
Written on 1 Jun, 2010 at 8:47 in Cyber Incidents | viewed 61 views times | 0 Comments
Cyber miscreants can now purchase botnets relatively cheaply, according to an article on SiliconIndia. The botnets, a string of infected computers run by a “control server,” allow a purchaser to use the botnet to assail websites and servers and effectively... (Continue reading)
DDoS Attack Takes Out Web Host
Written on 27 May, 2010 at 8:34 in Cyber Incidents | viewed 81 views times | 1 Comment
Web hosting provider Media Temple was hit by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack earlier this week. The attack, which appeared to emanate from outside the United States, began sometime in the afternoon on Tuesday and took down the... (Continue reading)
Second Scientology DDoS Attacker Jailed
Written on 26 May, 2010 at 7:43 in Cyber Incidents | viewed 111 views times | 0 Comments
A Nebraska man has been jailed for a year and ordered to pay $20,000 in compensation to the Church of Scientology for participating in the 2008 DDoS attacks that crashed the organization’s websites. According to court documents, Brian Thomas Mettenbrink participated... (Continue reading)
Man Accused of Cyber Attacking Conservatives
Written on 19 May, 2010 at 9:01 in Cyber Incidents | viewed 103 views times | 0 Comments
Federal prosecutors have accused a man of launching distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against the websites of conservatives Bill O’Reilly, Ann Coulter and Rudolph Giuliani. Mitchell L Frost is accused of launching the attacks while an undergraduate at the University... (Continue reading)
Telecom DoS Hides Cyber Crime
Written on 12 May, 2010 at 9:44 in Cyber Incidents | viewed 554 views times | 1 Comment
The recent spike in unsolicited and mysterious telephone calls may be part of a new scheme to use telecommunications distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks to distract individuals from ongoing cyber crime, the FBI warned recently. According to the FBI, cyber... (Continue reading)
Report Studies Social and Psychological Aspects of DDoS Attacks in ‘Web War One’
Written on 29 Apr, 2010 at 10:09 in Cyber Policy | viewed 96 views times | 0 Comments
Three researchers have claimed that the cyber attacks that wrecked havoc on Estonia in 2007 were partly fueled by the anonymity of the Internet and a concept called contagion. The paper, entitled ‘Storming the Servers: A Social Psychological Analysis of... (Continue reading)
Virtual Protest Crosses Line into Cyber Crime?
Written on 9 Apr, 2010 at 8:01 in Cyber Incidents | viewed 386 views times | 0 Comments
A professor at the University of California San Diego who organized a virtual protest against the university’s president has been told he may face criminal charges for launching a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. The protest, organized by Professor... (Continue reading)
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