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4 Ways to Prevent Domain Name Hijacking

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On the night of Monday, January 23, the hacktivist group UGNazi hijacked Coach.com, the Internet domain name of luxury goods manufacturer Coach. For several hours, fashionistas who wanted to ogle Coach's new Willis handbag on Coach.com or get a deal on its Penelope shoulder bag at Coachfactory.com were redirected to UGNazi's cryptic website.

Dave Wreski
Feb 02, 2012

Cloud activity to explode in 2012

In testing cloud computing services and observing the growth of cloud activities, we've noticed that there are distinct phases that organizations go through in adopting cloud.

Dave Wreski
Jan 18, 2012

Judge bans stolen student sex pics sharing on BitTorrent

Conservative MP Louise Mensch has welcomed a landmark ruling in an internet bullying case as an advance for individual liberty. The case involved an anonymous student, known for the purposes of the case as "AMP", whose photographs were distributed by P2P software after her mobile phone was lost or stolen.

Dave Wreski
Jan 12, 2012

Dot-dash-diss: The gentleman hacker's 1903 lulz

A century ago, one of the world

Alex
Dec 29, 2011

2011: A year of hack!

Dubbed as

Anthony Pell
Dec 20, 2011

Top 10 Influential 2011: Sony's PSN hacking

While the tag-teaming antics of LulzSec and Anonymous made many a security news headline during the last year, arguably the repeated hacking of Sony

Dave Wreski
Dec 05, 2011

Tor launches DIY relays in Amazon cloud

The Tor Project is tapping Amazon's EC2 cloud service to make it easier for volunteers to donate bandwidth to the anonymity network.

Anthony Pell
Nov 22, 2011

Experts explain greatest threats to cloud security

Cloud security threats come in all shapes and sizes, so we asked eight experts to weigh in on what they see as the top threat to cloud security. The answers run the gamut, but in all cases, our cloud security panelists believe that these threats can be addressed.

Dave Wreski
Oct 10, 2011

Context warns of new reverse web proxy bypass vulnerability

Apache releases security advisory following discovery of back door threat by researchers at Context Information Security

Anthony Pell
Oct 06, 2011

Go Daddy mass hack points surfers towards malware

Hundreds of Go Daddy sites were compromised to point towards a site hosting malware last weekend. The mass hack of around 445 sites involved the injection of hostile code into the .htaccess files of the sites.

Anthony Pell
Sep 19, 2011

How Hacktivism Affects Us All

In December 2010, a group of nearly 3000 activists under the name "Operation Payback" launched online attacks against PayPal, MasterCard, and Visa, briefly knocking the three financial services' sites offline and preventing consumers from accessing ATMs or online banking services.

Dave Wreski
Sep 07, 2011

Cloud computing: If hackers want access, they'll get it

Cloud providers that store client data on shared or virtual servers must ensure that private customer information cannot be accessed in the event of a cyber attack or a server being hacked, according to search specialists, Simplexo.

Dave Wreski
Aug 23, 2011

Lessons learned from a recent Amazon outage

Another Amazon cloud-services outage occurred on Sunday, August 7th in a Dublin, Ireland data center. This one occurred due to a lightning strike that hit a transformer near the Dublin data center. It led to an explosion and fire that knocked out all utility services thereby leading to a total data center outage. Amazon had its only European data center located there.

Alex
Aug 16, 2011

Security experts knock Google on PC infection warnings

Google has taken the unprecedented step of warning millions of users whose PCs it believes are infected with fake security software and other malware, the company said yesterday. But some security experts are leery of Google's move.

Anthony Pell
Jul 22, 2011

Firms still lack faith in cloud security for their data

BLACK BOX CLOUD DEPLOYMENTS are being shunned by firms looking to backup data due to security concerns. Cloud deployments, which have gained popularity in the past five years through the promise of accessing seemingly unlimited resources conjured up out of thin air, are being shunned for use as redundant storage due to fears about data security.

Anthony Pell
Jul 20, 2011

Two DDoS attacks hit Network Solutions

Network solutions is reporting on two consecutive DDoS attacks which hit the company

Alex
Jun 22, 2011

Hacker attacks show vulnerability of cloud computing

Outsourcing computer tasks to firms that maintain huge data centers around the world may not be as safe as billed, despite the cloud's potential for cost savings and reducing the hassles of running in-house servers, security experts say.

Dave Wreski
Jun 17, 2011

Turkey arrests 32 Anonymous hackers for DDOS attacks

Turkey responded to the hacking group Anonymous with 32 arrests following attacks on government websites, according to the country's state-run news agency.

Anthony Pell
Jun 13, 2011

Virtualized environments painfully insecure?

Less than 20 percent of organizations using virtualization technology are adopting security tools to work in tandem with the software in order to decrease the risks that are inherent in a virtualized environment. This according to John Burke, Principal Research Analyst with Nemertes Research, who spoke Tuesday at the IT Roadmap Conference and Expo in Boston about the emerging threats posed to mobile and virtual environments.

Dave Wreski
Jun 10, 2011

What is World IPv6 Day and why it matters

While you

Anthony Pell
Jun 07, 2011

Linux Network Security - Page 8

Harnessing Proxies for Enhanced Threat Intelligence: A Guide with Open Source Tools

Understanding HTTP Proxy Servers: A Vital Linux Network Security Tool

Exploring Vulnerability Scanners: Tools & Strategies for a Secure Network