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DDoS attack against Bitbucket darkens Amazon cloud
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| A crippling DDoS attack over the weekend against open-
| source hosting service Bitbucket and Amazon's EC2 service
| has questions being raised about the speed and
| effectiveness of Amazon's response to the emergency, as
| well as the general reliability of cloud services.
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http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/45891
The Cybersecurity Myth
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| âIâm not sure there are even a handful (of experts) with
| any sort of broad experience,â said expert number five, who
| is usually associated with security hardware. âThere
| probably are pockets of them, with specialized narrow
| experience, e.g. in banking, virus or DOS attacks, military
| networks, etc.. And even if there were 1,000, what would
| they be doing on behalf of Uncle Sam?â
|
| Thatâs a great question given that we as a nation canât
| seem to hire and keep a national cybersecurity czar. So
| what are we doing hiring 1,000 experts given there is no
| boss?
|
| [...]
|
| The DHS is extremely unlikely to be able to find and train
| 1,000 cybersecurity experts in three years. Maybe theyâll
| come up with 100 (more likely 5-10), but the DHS
| environment will make it unlikely â very unlikely â that
| all of those 100 will stick around.
|
| [...]
|
| âSure there are 1,000 (cybersecurity experts),â he said, â
| but they are already employedâ as hackers.â
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http://www.cringely.com/2009/10/the-cybersecurity-myth/
Recent:
Twitter briefly knocked offline by hackers (again)
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| Twitter suffered from yet more security jitters on Tuesday night, after
| another attack left the site briefly unavailable.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08/12/twitter_outage_again/
Should Microsoft be Liable for its Flaws?
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| The recent attacks on Twitter and Facebook, probably using Windows botnets,
| have highlighted an old issue: whether Microsoft should be held responsible
| for the flaws in its software that cause such costly global downtimes.
|
| At first glance, it's an attractive option. After all, it could be argued
| that the company has made billions of dollars of profit from software that
| has caused billions of dollars of losses for users around the world, and so
| it would be only fair if some of that unjustly gained dosh were redistributed
| to those who have suffered at its hands.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=2437&blogid=14
Nine MS security bulletins create busy updates workload
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| Microsoft released the expected nine patches - five critical - as part of a
| busy August Patch Tuesday update that focuses primarily on client-side
| vulnerabilities.
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http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2009/08/12/nokia_maemo_smartphone/
Related:
New banking code cracks down on out-of-date software
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| The banking industry has re-affirmed a policy that makes online banking
| customers responsible for losses if they have out of date anti-virus or
| anti-phishing protection. New Banking Codes for consumers and businesses took
| effect on Monday.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/04/banking_code_2008/
Bots rule in cyberspace
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| USA TODAY REPORTS that on an average day, 40 per cent of the 800 million
| computers connected to the Internet are bots used to send out spam, viruses
| and to mine for sensitive personal data.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/03/17/bots-rule-cyberspace
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/computersecurity/2008-03-16-computer-botnets_N.htm
In zombies we trust
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| A little over a year ago, I wrote an editorial where in back-of-the-envelope
| style (.pdf) I estimated that perhaps 15-30% of all privately owned computers
| were no longer under the sole control of their owner. In the intervening
| months, I received a certain amount of hate mail but in those intervening
| months Vint Cert guessed 20-40%, Microsoft said 2/3rds, and IDC suggested
| 3/4ths. It is thus a conservative risk position to assume that any random
| counterparty stands a fair chance of being already compromised.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=661
Secure web browsing through Live Linux distros
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| Banking isn't the be-all and end-all: there's many other reasons you'd
| want a secure system, separate from what's on the hard disk, besides
| Internet banking. Traveller's can't necessarily trust the integrity of
| a computer in an Internet cafe.
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http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/13292/53/
Online banking fraud 'up 8,000%'
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| The UK has seen an 8,000% increase in fake internet banking scams
| in the past two years, the government's financial watchdog has warned.
|
| The Financial Services Authority (FSA) told peers it was "very concerned"
| about the growth in "phishing".
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6177555.stm
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