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Website For The President Of Georgia Under Distributed Denial Of Service Attack

2008-07-20 22:08:02 by CyberInsecure in CyberInsecure.com
 
...denial of service (DDoS) attack against the website of President of Georgia, Mikhail Saakashvili (www.president.gov.ge). For over 24 hours the website has been rendered unavailable. The attack began very early Saturday morning (Georgian time). Shadowserver has observed at least one web-based command and control (C&C) server taking
 
Tags: website, attack, president, shadowserver reports, shadowserver, georgian time, georgia, mikhail saakashvili, denial
 
 
 
 
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Training People on Threat Modeling

2008-03-14 23:11:12 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...denial, would. Unfortunately, STDIDE (Spoofing, Tampering, Denial, Information Disclosure, Denial of Service, Elevation of Privilege) doesnt make a very memorable acronym. Memorable is important when training people. Our reviewers have raised this as an issue, and d love to get feedback from our readers. How can we ensure that the software we...
 
Tags: web site, site, threat, windows, windows source code, code, people, degrade service, non-repudiation
 
 
 
 
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The Top Ten Cybersecurity Threats for 2008

2008-01-05 17:22:36 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
...denial of service attacks Cyberterrorism, bulling, vandalism and other forms of electronic violence and malfeasance Subversion of democratic political processes Criminal manipulation and subversion of financial markets Spying and theft of data by governments, industry, terrorists and other criminals Denial-of-service attacks by criminals and...
 
Tags: cybersecurity threats, theft, criminal, criminal manipulation, identity theft, top, attacks, comments, service attacks
 
 
 
 
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Blue Box #73: SIP security issues at IETF 70, Skype security, vulnerabilities in Cisco and Nokia phones, Vietnam's cyberdissidents, VoIP security news

2007-12-31 18:08:58 by HASH0x89ff4a8 in Blue Box: The VoIP Security Podcast
 
...Denial of Service Nokia N95 Remote Denial of Service using the SIP Stack Network World: VoIP Security Lessons Microsoft OCS Can Learn From Vonage and Others pointing over to series of posts on the Telecosm blog and the start of a series on VoIP security including DoS and anonymity VoIP News: Not Waiting For the Big One TechWorld: VoIP is the...
 
Tags: voip security news, news, voip, protect voip communications, security, sip, skype security, sip security issues, voip news
 
 
 
 
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Blue Box #73: SIP security issues at IETF 70, Skype security, vulnerabilities in Cisco and Nokia phones, Vietnam's cyberdissidents, VoIP security news

2007-12-31 19:08:58 by Dan York in Blue Box: The VoIP Security Podcast
 
...Denial of Service Nokia N95 Remote Denial of Service using the SIP Stack Network World: VoIP Security Lessons Microsoft OCS Can Learn From Vonage and Others pointing over to series of posts on the Telecosm blog and the start of a series on VoIP security including DoS and anonymity VoIP News: Not Waiting For the Big One TechWorld: VoIP is the...
 
Tags: voip security news, news, voip, protect voip communications, security, sip, skype security, sip security issues, voip news
 
 
 
 
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Computer Misuse in Scotland

2008-02-14 20:25:22 by Richard Clayton in Light Blue Touchpaper
 
...denial-of-service attacks and locked up for distributing hacking tools whereas in the rest of the country, its 1990 offences only for a few more weeks The changes that arrive in April with the Serious Crime Act wont make much difference to the people of Scotland, all that happens is that one of the new offences stops being computer-specific...
 
Tags: act, computer misuse act, computer misuse, justice act, crime act, scotland, law, law stands, offences stops
 
 
 
 
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Software Security Metrics and Commentary - Part 2

2007-10-23 20:31:00 by Security Retentive in Security Retentive
 
...Denial of Service Two metrics spring to mind here Memory/Resource Allocations Before Authentication Memory Leaks Both of these are a lot more likely to lead to application denial of service than any other errors I can think of. Both of these should be minimized. Tracking them and having the absolute fewest of them is probably a good bet. That...
 
Tags: security metrics, software security metrics, metrics, software, metrics framework, metric, upstream sdl metrics, concrete metric, paper steve bellovin
 
 
 
 
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ATM-Owner Cardtronics Issues Non-Denial Denial in Citibank Breach

2008-07-08 00:30:00 by Threat Level in Wired Security
 
The company that owns the 7-Eleven ATMs implicated in a massive leak of PIN codes issues a statement announcing that it doesn't anticipate issuing any statements
 
Tags: pin codes issues, massive leak, statements, statement, atms, company, owns
 
 
 
 
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Password policies. Once again.

2007-09-04 22:14:00 by Steve Riley in Steve Riley on Security
 
...denial-of-service attacks against accounts or entire domains! Even if you use a timed unlock of, say, 15 minutes, then the attacker can write his script to churn through thousands of bogus logon attempts every 15 minutes 2 seconds. So, contrary to the claim, enabling this setting actually can have significant impact on usability Account...
 
Tags: account, enable account lockout, password, account lockouts, disable account lockout, 42-day default expiration, default, expiration, password expires