Denial of Service
What computer security threats can we expect to see in 2013?
Here are the trends that SophosLabs anticipates will shape the IT security landscape next year:
Sophos Security Threat Report 2013 - the safest and riskiest countries revealed
Download the free Sophos Security Threat Report, looking back over 2012 and exploring what security threats and trends we will all be facing tomorrow.
Monday review - the hot 23 stories of the week
It's weekly summary time.
Here's everything we've written in the last seven days.
Man charged over attack on UK police, Oxbridge university websites
A 20-year-old British man will appear in court next month, charged with attempting to bring down the websites of Oxford and Cambridge universities.
Monday review - the hot 22 stories of the week
Here you go. All the stories we wrote in the past seven days, in case you missed anything (or just want to read them again).
DDoS marketing stunt backfires, entrepreneur jailed for nine months
He meant to promote his anti-DDoS kit by shedding light on poor internet security at the Hong Kong stock exchange, but his two brief DDoS attacks instead wound up costing him his freedom for the better part of a year.
Are you ready for International Kill A Zombie Day, 2012?
Forget trick-or-treating, use the excuse of Halloween to exterminate some zombie computers instead!
Over half of Brits have fallen victim to cybercrime, but most haven't changed their online behaviour
56% of adults in the UK have suffered from cybercrime, according to a recent survey by getsafeonline.org. But that doesn't seem to have changed their online behaviour, with nearly three quarters of them not having changed the way they use the internet.
Monday review: the hot 31 stories of the week
It's time for this week's Monday review: all our stories from the past seven days.
Enjoy!
HSBC recovers from DDoS attack, after internet banking services disrupted
HSBC has successfully recovered from a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack which saw a number of its websites brought down, making it impossible for customers to use internet banking services.
Medical device hacking - FDA are told to start taking it seriously
In a new report, the government takes the FDA to task for ignoring the possibility that insulin pumps and defibrillators are susceptible to malware, unauthorized access and denial of service.
Monday review: the hot 26 stories of the week
Here's a list of all the stories we've written in the last week, in case you missed any (or if you just want to read them again).
Leading US banks targeted in DDoS attacks
A string of attacks against the websites of leading American banks may be tied to politically motivated hacktivism, according to reports.
How Earth Day could save both the planet... and the internet
Earth Day really did make a difference - at least in the world of internet security.
That's one of the conclusions revealed in a paper presented today at the Virus Bulletin (VB2012) conference in Dallas, Texas.
US senator blames Iran for cyber attacks on banks
US Sen. Joe Lieberman says people in the know are tracing the attacks to the government's cyber army and theorizes that the DDoSes are retaliation for economic sanctions and/or Stuxnet.
Apple Mountain Lion 10.8.2 - lots of bug fixes, no known vices
The latest security updates for Snow Leopard, Lion and Mountain Lion came out last week.
They were overshadowed by the iPhone 5 and iOS 6, but to OS X users, are just as important. More so, in fact!
Go Daddy largely unavailable for over 4 hours - Hacker revenge or SNAFU?
Today Go Daddy, the worlds largest domain name registrar, was unavailable for over four hours in the middle of the North American working day. Was it a malicious hacker or simple a colossal infrastructure failure?
DDoS attack stymies vote in Miss Hong Kong beauty contest
Residents of Hong Kong were up in arms after a popular, online vote to select the next Miss Hong Kong was sabotaged by a distributed denial-of-service attack, forcing the pageant’s judges to pick the winner on their own.
If you launch a DDoS attack against Amazon, it's unwise to brag about it..
Authorities in the United States have charged two men in connection with a DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attack that crippled websites such as Amazon.com in June 2008.
State-sponsored cybercrime on "industrial scale" says MI5 chief
One company lost £800m as a result of hostile state cyber attack, says British Security Service chief.
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