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A new Internet worm may be on the loose and could have already infected thousands of sites running Web server software from Microsoft, security experts warned Monday. Since late last week, a malicious program has been scanning the Internet and compromising Microsoft systems running unpatched versions of the Internet Information Server (IIS), according to independent reports.
Though black clothing still dominated and clusters of hackers exchanging information was still the norm, the crowd at this year's Def Con was older and appeared to be far more professional.
"It is more laid back this year," acknowledged Jeff Moss, the founder of the conference, now in its ninth year. "It is more a reflection of what is going on in the hacking community."
North Sydney Girls High School has become the latest unsuspecting victim of a denial of service (DOS) attack to its Web site.
The attack was brought to the attention of ZDNet today, and when contacted the school was oblivious of the vandalism to its site.
With school winter vacation in full force, the attack points to a pupil with too much time on their hands pulling a prank.
The hacker left a message, including expletives, in bright red text on a black background aimed at the US government.
Procedural mistakes, and not some new security bug, were likely the cause of the defacement last week of the Web site of the SANS Institute, according to sources close to the organization. The computer security research and education group restored its Web site Sunday evening, after its home page was replaced Friday by an attacker using the name "Fluffi Bunni."
The defaced page included a photo of a pink stuffed rabbit in front of a computer. On the screen of the monitor read a message, "Would you really trust these guys to teach you security?"
Over the years, the option of outsourcing has worked its way into every IT function, including those formerly considered too vital and proprietary to be trusted to a third party, such as database management, application development, and even storage. Every function, that is, but one: security.
The technology industry is scrambling to combat what many computer security experts say will be the next target of hackers and computer viruses: wireless devices. No known attacks have knocked out business networks or large numbers of cell phones, handheld computers and laptops. But cyber assaults are likely to come in the next year, given the history of hackers targeting new technologies, security pros say.
A bogus Microsoft Corp. security alert is apparently being used by crafty hackers to spread the latest version of a computer worm on the Internet. In an announcement on its Symantec Antivirus Research Center (SARC) Web site, Symantec Corp. said that the W32.Leave.B.Worm is a variant of the W32-Leave.worm identified several weeks ago by the FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Center.
Are you practically begging hackers and Internet thieves to attack? Up to half of U.S. broadband users are leaving themselves wide open to attack by Internet thieves and hackers. Why? Because subscribers to "always on" Net connections aren't using any protection--like a firewall or antivirus software--to keep the black hats from gaining access to their PCs.
AllDas.de, the defacement web site was suffering more DoS attacks over the weekend. Due to another DDoS attack in the past 4 days, they were unable to keep their mirror up to date. The core routers had to handle traffic of like 600mbit, which was obviously too much.
