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Who's Behind the Georgia Cyber Attacks?

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2008-08-14 10:16:34 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...attacks, encompassing of plain simple ping floods, web site defacements, to sustained DDoS attacks, which no matter the fact that Geogia has switched hosting location to the U.S remain ongoing? It's Russia's self-mobilizing cyber militia, the product of a collectivist society having the capacity to wage cyber wars and literally dictating the...
 
Tags: attacks, georgia cyber attacks, warfare, departamental cyber warfare, cyber warfare tensions, information warfare concept, information warfare, russian, russian oligarchs
 
 
 
 
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Man-in-the-Middle Attacks

2008-07-15 06:47:19 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...attacks . Even with context, it's still possible for MITM to fool both sides -- because electronic communications are often intermittent. Imagine that one of the FARC guerrillas became suspicious about who he was talking to. So he asks a question about their shared history as a test: "What did we have for dinner that time last year?" or...
 
Tags: implement mitm attacks, implement, mitm attacks, mitm, mitm attack, bank, bank demands authentication, bank assumes, attacker inserts
 
 
 
 
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Blended Attacks and The Tiger Team

2008-01-08 03:07:00 by Erik T. Heidt in Art of Information Security
 
...Attacks Targeting Both Physical and IT Domains In 2007, criminals demonstrated their evolving ingenuity by employing blended attacks to obtain sensitive information and evade detection. The most significant example of this trend was a string of attacks on Stop & Shop supermarkets in Rhode Island. Attackers broke into and vandalized...
 
Tags: tiger team, team, attacks, attack, attack ideas, physical security blog, physical, cisco report, annual security report
 
 
 
 
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NSA Attacks West Point! Relax, It's a Cyberwar Game

2008-05-10 01:00:00 by David Axe in Wired Security
 
...attacks or defensive measures. Beyond that, the teams were free to come up with their own designs West Point's took three weeks to build. The cadets settled on a fairly standard Linux and FreeBSD-based network with advanced routing techniques for steering incoming traffic in directions of the IT team's choosing The choices in software tools...
 
Tags: army university, army, custom-built networks, networks, nsa, army cadets, west, cadets, network
 
 
 
 
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Custom DDoS Attacks Within Popular Malware Diversifying

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2008-05-12 04:42:01 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...attacks within, and also, the fact that the average script kiddies are continuing getting empowered with access to DDoS tools going beyond the average HTTP request flooders and ICMP flooding attacks. Furthermore, realizing the PSYOPs effect that could be created out of the popularity of this DIY malware, a specific Anti CNN version was...
 
Tags: malware, ddos attacks, attacks, diy malware, ddos attacks simply, favorite malware tools, malware authors, source malware, malware tool
 
 
 
 
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Lessons learned from the massive SQL injection attacks against legacy Microsoft ASP apps

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2008-07-08 14:32:33 by Chenxi Wang in Security & Risk Management
...attacks targeting Microsoft ASP applications running on IIS. The latest report has the number of attacked sites at 500,000. The press makes it sound like there is a new vulnerability in IIS or ASP. This cannot be further from the truth. The reality is the attacks are targeting Web applications where user input validation is not done (this is...
 
Tags: asp, attacks, web applications, legacy web applications, input validation, user input validation, microsoft asp applications, user input, code injection attacks
 
 
 
 
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Good Reading on Targeted Attacks / Malware

2008-02-25 16:52:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
...attacks - this is a subject that has 10x more mythology than fact and this is fact-based It starts like this: "Welcome to this page on targeted malware attacks. This subject has become a very common point of discussion and is subject to a lot of intrigue. By presenting some of the basic results of analysis of actual targeted trojan attacks,...
 
Tags: attacks, trojan attacks, subject, malware attacks, analysis, analysis hopes, discussion, basic results, lot
 
 
 
 
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Cyber attacks on NGOs

2008-05-07 16:42:00 by NGO Security in NGO Security
 
...attacks launched against humanitarian organizations (he wrote the article recently mentioned in this blog on electronic attacks against pro-Tibetan groups If you suspect your organization has been targeted, or you know of an organization that has, Maarten would like to hear from you. He's interested in attack methodologies and can help with...
 
Tags: attacks, cyber attacks, generic hacker activity, electronic attacks, computer security researcher, random virus, humanitarian organizations, van horenbeek, attack methodologies
 
 
 
 
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Is Your Amazon Machine Image Vulnerable to SSH Spoofing Attacks?

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2008-07-14 16:26:40 by Craig Balding in Cloud Security
...attacks I dont know. But that isnt the real question - is the path between you and your AMI immune to MITM attacks and the answer is most definitely no. If SSH on your AMI is only accessible from another AMI then its a fair question but its unlikely Amazon are going to show you their network diagrams ;-). From experience performing MITM...
 
Tags: ssh, limit ssh access, ssh host keys, host keys, ssh user keys, amazon, host ssh keys, amazon machine image, initial ssh connection