Oct 22
Yesterday, Google announced Project Shield
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Sep 11
According to domain registrar Go Daddy, things are back to normal after yesterday’s massive outage. The company noted that service outages started at around 1PM ET, with service being “fully restored” by 7PM. Contrary to claims of an attack from hackers, the company’s interim CEO Scott Wagner insists that the outage “was not a ‘hack’ and it was not a denial of service attack (DDoS).” Instead, Go Daddy is chalking the problem up to “a series of internal network events that corrupted router data tables,” adding that the company has taken steps to avoid a repeat of the problem. According to Wagner, data was never at risk during yesterday’s issue.
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Go Daddy: yesterday’s outage resolved, ‘was not a hack’ originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 11 Sep 2012 12:40:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Aug 18
Apple responds to iPhone text message spoofing, reminds us how secure iMessage is
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If you’re a frequent texter, and the iPhone is your weapon of choice, there’s a good chance you’ve been a wee bit concerned since yesterday’s report that the device is vulnerable to a certain SMS spoofing attack. Basically, it’s possible for a malicious individual to send a message and specify a reply-to number that is not their own, appearing as if they are someone else. We got in touch with an Apple representative and here’s what we were told:
Apple takes security very seriously. When using iMessage instead of SMS, addresses are verified which protects against these kinds of spoofing attacks. One of the limitations of SMS is that it allows messages to be sent with spoofed addresses to any phone, so we urge customers to be extremely careful if they’re directed to an unknown website or address over SMS.
Even if you aren’t on an iPhone, we’d like to remind you to be careful when texting. There are numerous services out there that let you send a message that appears to be from anybody you like — regardless of what model, OS or even carrier the recipient is using. All the more reason to think twice before filing that loan application over SMS.
Apple responds to iPhone text message spoofing, reminds us how secure iMessage is originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 18 Aug 2012 11:58:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Jul 13
Bad news from the land of Tegra. NVIDIA has shut down its Developer Zone forums after noticing what it calls “attacks on the site by unauthorized third parties.” While the nature of the attacks isn’t clear, what’s troubling is that these attackers “may have gained access to hashed passwords.” Users are of course encouraged to change their secret codes and, with all the hackery going on lately, we might recommend you just go ahead and change them all — just in case.
[Thanks, Alfredo]
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NVIDIA Developer Zone shut down, may have been hacked originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 13 Jul 2012 07:09:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Jun 20
NICT has developed Daedalus, a cyber-attack alert system.
Daedalus renders attacks on networks visible in real time. The sphere in the center represents the Internet, and the circles moving around it represent networks under observation. The state of an attack is shown using 3D graphics, and can be viewed from any perspective.
“We previously created a system called nicter for observing cyber-attacks. We also built an observation network in Japan, called the Darknet Observation Network, to …
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