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Christian Ministries in Toronto victims of Cyber Attacks
- News Item
- June 27, 2009
- Breaking News
We in Canada can and are victims of Cyber Warefare. With all the news happening in the rest of the world, we think 'it can never happen to me', we are safe.
Local ministries in Toronto have been victims of cyber attacks. One site was brought complete...
Tiny-traffic DoS attack spotlights Apache flaw
- News Item
- June 26, 2009
- Interesting Stuff
Security guru Robert "RSnake" Hansen has released a novel DoS attack tool that points to a significant flaw in Apache and other webservers.
Hansen calls his creation "Slowloris - the low bandwidth yet greedy and poisonous HTTP client." Unlike an old ...
UK.gov decides best form of cyber defence is attack
- News Item
- June 26, 2009
- Breaking News
UK cyber security spooks will soon have the ability to undertake proactive missions online rather than just playing defense, under the revamped National Security Strategy published today.
For the first time, the National Security Strategy includes a ...
Crypto guru urges incentives for SSL cert recall
- News Item
- June 26, 2009
- Interesting Stuff
An SSL security guru is urging incentives to promote website certificate upgrade in response to problems with a widely-used digital-signature algorithm.
Collisions in the MD5 hashing algorithm mean that two different inputs can produce the same outpu...
Defense-contract discs sold in African market for $40
- News Item
- June 26, 2009
- Data Theft
Dumped hard drives with US defense data have turned up for open sale in a West African market.
A team of Canadian journalism students bought a hard drive containing information on multi-million dollar contracts between military contractor Northrop Gr...
Spammers swift to exploit Jackson death in email grab
- News Item
- June 26, 2009
- Breaking News
Spammers have wasted no time exploiting the shock death of Michael Jackson to run an email harvesting campaign.
Security watchers warn that malware-laced email themed around the death of the King of Pop and Charlie's Angels star Farrah Fawcett, who a...
Blue chip FTP logins found on cybercrime server
- News Item
- June 26, 2009
- Data Theft
Monster breach exposes Amazon and BBC to compromise
Security researchers have found a treasure chest of FTP passwords, some from high profile sites, on an open cybercrime server.
Jacques Erasmus, CTO at security tools firm Prevx, stumbled across a si...
Tiny-traffic DoS attack spotlights Apache flaw
- News Item
- June 20, 2009
- Breaking News
Security guru Robert "RSnake" Hansen has released a novel DoS attack tool that points to a significant flaw in Apache and other webservers.
Hansen calls his creation "Slowloris - the low bandwidth yet greedy and poisonous HTTP client." Unlike an old ...
Canadian bill forces personal data from ISPs sans warrant
- News Item
- June 18, 2009
- Law
Canada is considering legislation allowing the country's police and national security agency to readily access the online communications and the personal information of ISP subscribers.
"We must ensure that law enforcement has the necessary tools to ...
Researchers To Unleash New SMS Hacking Tool At Black Hat
- News Item
- June 18, 2009
- Interesting Stuff
iPhone-based auditing tool tests mobile phones for vulnerabilities to SMS-borne attacks
Texting just keeps getting riskier: Researchers at next month's Black Hat USA in Las Vegas will demonstrate newly discovered threats to mobile phone users, as...
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