DNS Provider Mistakenly Caught in WikiLeaks Saga Now Supports the Group |
- DNS Provider Mistakenly Caught in WikiLeaks Saga Now Supports the Group
- Wire Fraud Victim Sues Bank
- 24th members guide JROTC team in AFA CyberPatriot competition
- Secunia Weekly Summary - Issue: 2010-49
- Microsoft slates another monster Patch Tuesday
| DNS Provider Mistakenly Caught in WikiLeaks Saga Now Supports the Group Posted: InfoSec News: DNS Provider Mistakenly Caught in WikiLeaks Saga Now Supports the Group: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/12/easydns/ By Kim Zetter Threat Level Wired.com December 9, 2010 A DNS provider that suffered backlash last week after it was wrongly identified as supplying and then dropping DNS service to WikiLeaks has decided to support the secret-spilling site, offering DNS service to two domains distributing WikiLeaks content. EasyDNS, a Canadian firm, was attacked last Friday after media outlets mistakenly reported it had terminated its service for WikiLeaks. The company sent an e-mail to customers Thursday morning letting them know that it had begun providing DNS service for WikiLeaks.ch and WikiLeaks.nl, two of the primary domain names WikiLeaks relocated to after WikiLeaks.org stopped resolving. "We’ve already done the time, we might as well do the crime," Mark Jeftovic, president and CEO of EasyDNS, told Threat Level about his decision. DNS service providers translate human-friendly domain names to IP addresses, so when someone types www.Amazon.com into their browser, for example, they’re properly connected to 72.21.211.176, the address of the host. It was actually EveryDNS, a competitor of EasyDNS, that had been providing this service to WikiLeaks.org for free. EveryDNS terminated this service last week after WikiLeaks was hit by prolonged denial-of-service (DoS) attacks by people opposed to the group publishing classified U.S. State Department cables. The company said the denial-of-service attacks against WikiLeaks threatened the stability of service for other EveryDNS customers. [...] |
| Posted: InfoSec News: Wire Fraud Victim Sues Bank: http://www.bankinfosecurity.com/articles.php?art_id=3159 By Linda McGlasson Managing Editor Bank Info Security December 9, 2010 A Missouri-based escrow company has sued its bank after losing $440,000 in a case of wire fraud. The suit, filed on Nov. [...] |
| 24th members guide JROTC team in AFA CyberPatriot competition Posted: InfoSec News: 24th members guide JROTC team in AFA CyberPatriot competition: http://www.afspc.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123233892 By Tech. Sgt. Scott McNabb 24th Air Force Public Affairs 12/9/2010 LACKLAND AIR FORCE BASE, Texas -- Just walking into the Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps building at John Jay High School, a stone's throw [...] |
| Secunia Weekly Summary - Issue: 2010-49 Posted: InfoSec News: Secunia Weekly Summary - Issue: 2010-49: ======================================================================== The Secunia Weekly Advisory Summary 2010-12-02 - 2010-12-09 This week: 69 advisories [...] |
| Microsoft slates another monster Patch Tuesday Posted: InfoSec News: Microsoft slates another monster Patch Tuesday: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9200642/Microsoft_slates_another_monster_Patch_Tuesday By Gregg Keizer Computerworld December 9, 2010 Microsoft today said it will deliver a record 17 security updates next week to patch 40 vulnerabilities in Windows, Internet Explorer (IE), [...] |
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