So says an article in the latest issue of New Scientist, commenting on a report published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society last week. The key, apparently, is China’s implementation of Source Address Validation Architecture (SAVA).
Malware developers paying $100 apiece for Google Play accounts
Dovetailing with the ever-escalating glut of Android-based mobile malware, it turns out that a black market for Android developer accounts has sprung up. Google Play accounts are apparently going for $100 a pop in the cyber-underground.
LinkedIn’s $5M class-action data breach lawsuit dismissed
A $5 million class-action suit brought against networking site LinkedIn concerning a significant June 2012 data breach has been dismissed after a US District Court judge ruled the breach as “abstract” rather than resulting in actual harm.
Making Things Uncomplicated In Hacking World With ChatWing Chat Software
This is a guest post by Aaron Kong.Putting up a site intended to inform people of things they need to know like an online encyclopedia and such is a very good idea of sharing your knowledge to the people who needs it. As such, it is also important that…
March 2013 Patch Tuesday preview
This month’s Patch Tuesday will include seven security bulletins from Microsoft: four are critical and three are important; three require reboots, three may require a reboot, and one does not. Both businesses and consumers will likely be affected.
DARPA says goodbye to hacker-friendly Cyber Fast Track program
The Department of Defense is pulling the plug on Cyber Fast Track, a program aimed at tapping reformed hackers and other security hotshots to solve cyber-defense problems quickly.
Android malware blossoms as PC attacks fade
If there were any doubt that Android malware is becoming an epidemic, look no further than a study showing that the number of new malware programs for the mobile operating system has increased five-fold since the first half of 2012. PC threats, meanwhi…
RSA 2013: White Hats Need to Play a More Intelligent Game
The information security community must stop giving away the roadmap to its defense, said Art Gilliland, HP, at the RSA conference in San Francisco, February 28 2013.
Phase 3 of the Op Ababil DDoS attacks on US banks commences
al-Qassam Cyber Fighters announced the resumption on Tuesday. By Wednesday, customers of PNC Bank, Wells Fargo, Citibank, Bank of America and a number of other major banks were reporting difficulties to the sitedown.co website.
Raspberry Pi got DDoS’d
Starting late on Tuesday the Raspberry Pi Foundation was taken down by a massive SYN flood attack. The Foundation is behind the credit card-sized Raspberry Pi computer, originally designed to promote the teaching of computer basics in schools.