Has WikiLeaks landed in cyberattack crosshairs?

Has WikiLeaks landed in cyberattack crosshairs?


Has WikiLeaks landed in cyberattack crosshairs?

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InfoSec News: Has WikiLeaks landed in cyberattack crosshairs?: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-20020835-38.html
By Declan McCullagh Politics and Law CNet News October 27, 2010
Forget China or Al Qaeda. In a twist that would have been inconceivable even a few months ago, the WikiLeaks.org Web site is being proposed as the first public target for a U.S. [...]

Vietnam Is Riskiest Country Domain, Study Says

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InfoSec News: Vietnam Is Riskiest Country Domain, Study Says: http://www.darkreading.com/security/vulnerabilities/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=228000195
By Tim Wilson DarkReading Oct 27, 2010
The world’s most heavily trafficked Web domain -- .com -- is also now the riskiest, according to McAfee’s fourth annual "Mapping the Mal Web [...]

460th Space Wing wraps up first ever Cyber Lightning exercise

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InfoSec News: 460th Space Wing wraps up first ever Cyber Lightning exercise: http://www.afspc.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123228183
By Master Sgt. J. LaVoie 460th Space Wing Public Affairs 10/27/2010
Working under a carefully planned and escalating contested cyber environment on Oct. 15 members of the 460th Space Wing successfully [...]

Credit card 'flash attack' steals up to $500,000 a month

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InfoSec News: Credit card 'flash attack' steals up to $500,000 a month: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/10/27/credit_card_flash_attacks/
By Dan Goodin in San Francisco The Register 27th October 2010
Credit card fraudsters may have pocketed as much as $500,000 over the past month by pursuing a new type of attack that exploits a major blind [...]

Hackers shopping malware network

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InfoSec News: Hackers shopping malware network: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/oct/26/hackers-shopping-malware-network/
By Shaun Waterman The Washington Times October 26, 2010
A hacker group calling itself the Iranian Cyber Army is assembling a network of infected computers, and selling it to cybercriminals to [...]

The Online Threat

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InfoSec News: The Online Threat: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/11/01/101101fa_fact_hersh
By Seymour M. Hersh The New Yorker November 1, 2010
On April 1, 2001, an American EP-3E Aries II reconnaissance plane on an eavesdropping mission collided with a Chinese interceptor jet over the [...]

Researchers hack toys, attack iPhones at ToorCon

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InfoSec News: Researchers hack toys, attack iPhones at ToorCon: http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-20020547-245.html
By Elinor Mills InSecurity Complex CNet News October 24, 2010
SAN DIEGO -- From "weaponized" iPhone software to hacked toys and leaked cookies, researchers at the ToorCon security conference here this [...]

How to protect against Firesheep attacks

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InfoSec News: How to protect against Firesheep attacks: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9193201/How_to_protect_against_Firesheep_attacks
By Gregg Keizer Computerworld October 26, 2010
Security experts today suggested ways users can protect themselves against Firesheep, the new Firefox browser add-on that lets amateurs [...]

Report: ‘Spear-Phishing’ Attacks Keep on Giving

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InfoSec News: Report: 'Spear-Phishing' Attacks Keep on Giving: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/10/spear-phishing/
By Kim Zetter Threat Level Wired.com October 26, 2010
The number of targeted phishing attacks against individuals has risen dramatically in the last five years from one or two a week in 2005 to [...]

[Dataloss Weekly Summary] Week of Sunday, October 17, 2010

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InfoSec News: [Dataloss Weekly Summary] Week of Sunday, October 17, 2010: ========================================================================
Open Security Foundation - DataLossDB Weekly Summary Week of Sunday, October 17, 2010
20 Incidents Added.
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Iranian cyber army moves into botnets

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InfoSec News: Iranian cyber army moves into botnets: http://www.csoonline.com/article/629117/iranian-cyber-army-moves-into-botnets
By Jeremy Kirk IDG News Service October 25, 2010
A group of malicious hackers who attacked Twitter and the Chinese search engine Baidu are also apparently running a for-rent botnet, according to new research. [...]

Hackers plant Firefox 0day on Nobel Peace Prize website

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InfoSec News: Hackers plant Firefox 0day on Nobel Peace Prize website: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/10/26/firefox_0day_report/
By Dan Goodin in San Francisco The Register 26th October 2010
Malicious hackers have exploited an unpatched vulnerability in the latest version of Firefox to attack people visiting the Nobel Peace [...]

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