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Loudmouths Wanted for ICANN WHOIS Replacement Work
TL;DR? It's worth reading, BUT, if not — ICANN has yet another group looking at WHOIS, and there is a huge push to redact it to nothing. I spend easily half my day in WHOIS data fighting online crime,...
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Obama Cyberattack Executive Order Extended by Trump Administration
"The ability for the government to sanction cybercriminals will last for at least one more year," Martyn Williams reporting form IDG News Service. "U.S. President Donald Trump is extending by one year...
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Permanent Denial-of-Service Attacks on the Rise, Incidents Involve...
Also known loosely as "phlashing" in some circles, Permanent Denial-of-Service (PDoS) is an increasing popular form of cyberattack that damages a system so badly that it requires replacement or...
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Researches Demonstrate How IPv6 Attacks Can Bypass Network Intrusion...
With the increasing popularity of IoT devices and the added interest of transition to IPv6, a whole new range of threat vectors are evolving that allow attackers to set up undetectable communications...
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German Minister Calls for Rules Allowing Nations to Attack Foreign Hackers
"Germany is trying to beef up its cyber defense, after the interior minister called for rules that allow nations to attack foreign hackers targeting critical infrastructure." Stefan Nicola reporting in...
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While Cyberspace Is Entering an Era of Warring States, There Remains a Chance...
For the non-state actors who are making efforts to approach cybersecurity issue in a different and creative way, the state actors, however, have given clear signs that they have exhausted their...
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UK Government Reports Nearly Half of Businesses Identified Cyber Security...
The UK government has released the results of national cybersecurity survey revealing nearly seven in ten large companies in the country have identified a breach or attack in the past 12 months. The...
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Denmark Says Russia Has Been Hacking Its Defense Ministry for Past Two Years
According to a new report by the Danish government's Center for Cybersecurity, hackers have breached email accounts and servers at both the Defense Ministry and the Foreign Ministry in 2015 and 2016....
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A Report on Cyber Espionage Activities of Pawn Storm Over the Past Two Years
Security firm, Trend Micro, released a paper today detailing Pawn Storm's operations within the last two years. Pawn Storm, also known as Sednit, Fancy Bear, APT28, Sofacy, and STRONTIUM, is a cyber...
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Sorry, Not Sorry: WHOIS Data Must Remain Public
In March, I posted a call to action to those of us in the community who have the inclination to fight against a movement to redact information critical to anti-abuse research. Today, I felt compelled...
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Germany Investigating Legal Grounds to Destroy Servers Used to Carry Out...
Hans-Georg Maassen, Germany's head of the German Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution says large amounts of data were seized during the May 20015 cyberattack on lower house of...
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French Presidential Candidate Confirms Massive Hack, Emails Dumped Online Two...
Leading French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron's campaign confirmed on Friday a "massive" computer hack that dumped its campaign emails online less than two days before the election. Eric...
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IoT Devices Will Never Be Secure – Enter the Programmable Networks
Harvard Business Review just ran an interesting article on the information security aspects of Internet of Things (IoT). Based on the storyline, the smart city initiatives are doomed to fail unless the...
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In Response to Offensive Destruction of Attack Assets
It is certainly true that DDoS and hacking are on the rise; there have been a number of critical hacks in the last few years, including apparent attempts to alter the outcome of elections. The reaction...
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WannaCry Ransomware Cyberattack Spreading to Countries Across the World, 45K...
Security researchers are reporting a massive attack today, dubbed "WannaCry", which has reached 45,000 attacks in 74 countries around the world so far, mostly in Russia. Kaspersky Lab's Global...
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Patching is Hard
There are many news reports of a ransomware worm. Much of the National Health Service in the UK has been hit; so has FedEx. The patch for the flaw exploited by this malware has been out for a while,...
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It’s Up to Each of Us: Why I WannaCry for Collaboration
WannaCry, or WannaCrypt, is one of the many names of the piece of ransomware that impacted the Internet last week, and will likely continue to make the rounds this week. There are a number of takeaways...
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Bell Canada Discloses Loss of 1.9 Million Email Addresses to Hacker, Says No...
Bell Canada, nation’s largest telecommunications company, disclosed late on Monday the illegal access of Bell customer information by an anonymous hacker. The information obtained are reported to...
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Security Costs Money. So – Who Pays?
Computer security costs money. It costs more to develop secure software, and there's an ongoing maintenance cost to patch the remaining holes. Spending more time and money up front will likely result...
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Emergency Patch Issued for Samba, WannaCry-type Bug Exploitable with One Line...
The team behind the free networking software Samba has issued and emergency patch for a remote code execution vulnerability. Tom Spring reporting from Threatpost writes: "The flaw poses a severe threat...
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