The notorious LulzSec announced the existence of LulzSecurity.com in a simple tweet on June 2, 2011. Within minutes that website was taken down by other hackers. However, less than an hour later LulzSec was back, and this time the site stayed up, at least until its announced "retirement" about three weeks later. What changed during that hour?
The Anonymous group appears to be most effective when launching a distributed denial of service attack, even though that doesn't appear to be its preferred strategy.
Two things set a one-block stretch of Florence Avenue apart from other American streets. One is the quirky metal sculptures planted in front of most homes; the other is the Internet traffic coursing through recently-strung fiber-optic cables on the block’s utility poles. They offer each house up to one gigabit per second in bandwidth, making this one of the fastest streets in America.
Open-source software developer Kai Engert has proposed an overhaul to the Internet's SSL authentication system, aiming to minimize the damage that would result from the compromise of one of the authorities trusted by major browsers.
An estimated half million users of compromised computer systems risk losing their Internet connection next month unless a federal judge extends a court order authorizing a California not-for-profit to operate a network of surrogate domain-name-system servers.
Internet-service providers should adopt an industrywide standard to help keep hackers from taking over customers’ computers, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski said.
Providers of high-speed Internet service, such as Comcast Corp. (CMCSA) and AT&T Inc. (T), should create a voluntary code of conduct to help protect against so-called botnets that secretly infect computers, Genachowski said in a speech today in Washington. He urged providers to take steps to thwart schemes that hijack Internet traffic and direct consumers to fraudulent websites.
The clock is running out on IPv4 on the Internet, but even so the next generation of Internet traffic protocols, IPv6, is being adopted very slowly. But, it seems IPv6 is finally making it to broad acceptance. Arbor Networks reports that the “latest milestone in IPv6 development: the first observations of IPv6 Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks.
This Valentine’s Day, the Serious Organised Crime Agency in the UK took control of a domain that had previously been used to distribute copyrighted material, notably music files. The domain in question is rnbexclusive.com (I know, I know… RnB, why would you?) SOCA replaced the landing page with a very direct message, advising visitors to the site of the action that had been taken and warning them that they may be liable to a ten year prison sentence and an unlimited fine.
An upcoming campaign announced by the hacking group Anonymous directed against the Internet's core address lookup system is unlikely to cause much damage, according to one security expert.
In a warning on Pastebin, Anonymous said last Thursday it would launch an action on March 31 as part of "Operation Global Blackout" that would target the root Domain Name System (DNS) servers.
Cisco has released a patch for an operating system flaw that could leave its Nexus switches open to denial-of-service attacks.
The network equipment maker released the fix Wednesday for NX-OS. The affected switch series are the Nexus 1000v, 5000 and 7000.
