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MediaDefender attacks Revision3 with DoS attack

MediaDefender attacks Revision3 with DoS attack I read this story today and was almost taken aback. After reading through the entire article it seemed too good (or bad) to be true, but apparently MediaDefender, who has been covered here multiple times, has recently been caught doing some very naughty (and downright illegal) things. Revision3 suffered a massive denial of service attack over the Memorial Day weekend, one that was targeted at their Bittorrent tracking service. While the attack was focused on Bittorrent, it ended up depriving Revision3 of effectively all their services – including email.

Kaspersky To Demo Attack Code For Intel Chips

snydeq writes "Kris Kaspersky will demonstrate how attackers can target flaws in Intel microprocessors to remotely attack a computer using JavaScript or TCP/IP packets, regardless of OS. The demo will be presented at the Hack In The Box Security Conference in Kuala Lumpur in October and will show how processor bugs can be exploited using certain instruction sequences and a knowledge of how Java compilers work, allowing an attacker to take control of the compiler. The demonstrated attack will be made against fully patched computers running a range of OSes, including Windows XP, Vista, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Linux, and BSD. An attack against a Mac is also a possibility."

Attack limited says ICANN

The attack on ICANN websites by Turkish hackers NetDevilz has been played down with ICANN saying the attack was 'limited'.

New 'Phlashing' Attack Sabotages Hardware

yahoi writes "A new type of denial-of-service attack, called permanent denial-of-service (PDOS), damages a system so badly that it requires replacement or reinstallation of hardware. A researcher has discovered how to abuse firmware update mechanisms with what he calls 'phlashing' — a type of remote PDOS attack."

Safari "Carpet Bomb" Attack Still a Risk

SecureThroughObscure writes "Just a short time after Apple's recent acknowledgment of and patch for the Safari Carpet Bomb 'blended' IE flaw, Microsoft researcher Billy Rios shows that Safari is still useful in a blended attack, this time with Firefox 2/3. (ZDNet's Nate McFeters also spread the word.) Rios claimed that he is able to use Carpet Bomb, despite the recent patch, to steal arbitrary files from victims who also have Firefox 2/3 installed. Both Rios and McFeters pointed out that Apple, which took some heat for not originally patching, actually did a good job of addressing the issue, as the code execution angle was not originally understood (the details came out later). Rios is withholding details of the new attack vector until Apple has had time to patch or respond to this issue.

Permanent Denial-of-Service Attack Sabotages Hardware

You don’t have to take an ax to a piece of hardware to perform a so-called permanent denial-of-service (PDOS) attack. A researcher this week will demonstrate a PDOS attack that can take place remotely.

American Heart Association Offers Heart Attack Risk Assessment Tool on Google Health

DALLAS, June 27 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Heart Association is making it easier for you to evaluate your 10-year risk of having a heart attack and keep track of medical information to reduce your risk and better manage your health by offering the heart attack risk assessment tool on Google Health.

Georgia President's web site under DDoS attack from Russian hackers

From Russia with (political) love? It appears so according to a deeper analysis of the command and control servers used byMechbot Command and Control Map the attackers. During the weekend, Georgia President’s web site was under a distributed denial of service attack which managed to take it offline for a couple of hours. The event took place in a moment of real life tensions between Russia and Georgia, with Russia clearly demonstrating its position against Georgia’s pro-Western government. Shadowserver’s comments, which originally picked up the attack first :

Attack Night Comes to Kansas City -- HALOCK Security Labs Serves Up Hacking Demonstrations at GSI Hosting

TMCNet: Attack Night Comes to Kansas City -- HALOCK Security Labs Serves Up Hacking Demonstrations at GSI Hosting

Attack on US Base in Afghanistan Kills 9 Americans

A multi-pronged militant assault on a small, remote U.S. base close to the Pakistan border killed nine American soldiers and wounded 15 Sunday in the deadliest attack on U.S. forces in Afghanistan in three years, officials said.

Attack Night Comes to Kansas City -- HALOCK Security Labs Serves Up Hacking Demonstrations at GSI Hosting

CHICAGO, BUSINESS WIRE -- HALOCK Security Labs has teamed up with GSI Hosting of Kansas City and other leading security providers to demonstrate Internet attacks and counter-attacks. The venue for Attack Night (http://www.attacknight.com) is GSI's five acre, world-class complex at the AirWorld Technology Park near the Kansas City International Airport. Tightly controlled by security protocols including proximity keycards, man-traps and 24/7/365 guards and video surveillance, the GSI facility makes for a formidable backdrop for HALOCK's hacking demonstrations.

Attack Night Comes to Kansas City -- HALOCK Security Labs Serves Up Hacking Demonstrations at GSI Hosting

CHICAGO - (Business Wire) HALOCK Security Labs has teamed up with GSI Hosting of Kansas City and other leading security providers to demonstrate Internet attacks and counter-attacks. The venue for Attack Night (http://www.attacknight.com) is GSI

Cyber attack on Lithuanian websites

Cyber attack on Lithuanian websitesVilnius - Some 300 websites in the Baltic nation of Lithuania were targetted in a cyber assault reminiscent of attacks on computer networks in Estonia in 2007, local media reported on Monday.

England attack 'quietly nice' - Vaughan

Plenty of the pre-Test series hype has focused on South Africa's potent pace attack led by Dale Steyn, but Michael Vaughan doesn't feel England's lack of pace makes them any less threatening. Vaughan, England's captain, has put faith in the trio of Ryan Sidebottom, James Anderson and Stuart Broad even as he shored up the possibility of his Ashes 2005 pace quartet bowling as a unit again.

Tiger attack survivor is charged with shoplifting video-game equipment

(05-20) 14:48 PDT OAKLAND -- The younger of two brothers who survived a Christmas Day tiger attack at the San Francisco Zoo was charged today with five felony counts accusing him of shoplifting video-game equipment from Target stores in the East Bay, authorities said.

Gunmen Attack U.S. Consulate in Turkey

A Turkish policeman, center left in a blue shirt, and an unidentified man lie on the ground lifeless outside of the U.S. Consulate after an attack in Istanbul, Turkey, Wednesday, July 9, 2008. Men armed with pistols and shotguns attacked a police guard post outside the U.S. consulate in Istanbul on Wednesday, sparking a gunbattle that left three attackers and three officers dead.

Attack Code Published For DNS Vulnerability

get_Rootin writes "That didn't take long. ZDNet is reporting that HD Moore has released exploit code for Dan Kaminsky's DNS cache poisioning vulnerability into the point-and-click Metasploit attack tool. From the article: 'This exploit caches a single malicious host entry into the target nameserver. By causing the target nameserver to query for random hostnames at the target domain, the attacker can spoof a response to the target server including an answer for the query, an authority server record, and an additional record for that server, causing target nameserver to insert the additional record into the cache.' Here's our previous Slashdot coverage."

Will Israel Attack Iran?

There is a possibility that Israel may attack Iran's nuclear facilities within the year, senior defense officials in Washington told ABC News today.

Taylor counter-attack rallies New Zealand

Ross Taylor's dashing, unbeaten 67 kept England's attack at bay before bad light forced an early halt to the first day's play of the second Test here at Old Trafford on Friday.

Sony PlayStation website hit by SQL attack

The SQL injection attack this week on the Sony PlayStation website is a high-profile example of what continues to be a rampant number of legitimate websites falling victims to insecure coding, researchers said on Wednesday.

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