This weekend saw the release of around 35,000 names and other details, allegedly including Mossad agents, stolen by Anonymous and following a warning that OpIsrael phase 2 – designed to ‘erase’ Israel from the internet – would commence on 7 April.
Bleeding Edge Kali Linux
We’ve been busy this week, still behind on our emails, but going strong with Kali development. We packaged some new tools which were pointed out by the community as missing, such as inguma, arachni, bully, lbd, uniscan, automater, as well as star…
Details of the latest Sykipot exploits revealed
Sykipot malware, often tied to a Chinese origin, has been used extensively over the last few years to target primarily US defense organizations. Now the latest zero-day exploits used by the gang have been revealed.
Seoul cautious in blaming North Korea for massive cyberattack
South Korea, the globe’s most-wired country and one of its biggest tech hubs, has been hit with a wave of attacks on major media and banks, freezing networks and broadcast infrastructure and rendering a swath of ATMs, mobile banking, websites and payme…
Privacy rules for the Police National Database protected sex offender Jimmy Savile
A critical review of the Jimmy Savile case, who now posthumously has hundreds of sexual abuse allegations against him, suggests that a combination of his celebrity status and police privacy rules combined to protect him for decades.
Scam warning: Facebook Black is back
The opportunity to change from Facebook blue to a different color is not a new scam, but there’s a new one doing the rounds right now: “I Totally Just Added The Brand New Facebook Black.”
Carna botnet – an interesting, amoral and illegal internet census
It started from a joke – we should try root:root to log on to random IP addresses. But it evolved from that into a botnet of port scanners able to port scan the entire IPv4 internet in very short order: a complete IPv4 internet census.
NATO lays out cyber-war rules of engagement
A new handbook created for NATO has set out 95 black-letter rules of cyber warfare that, among other recommendations, states that governments should refrain from launching attacks on civilians, hospitals, nuclear power stations, dams and dykes.
Pinkie Pie slices out $40K reward at Google Pwnium 3 hacking contest
Earlier this month at the CanSecWest security conference, Google’s Chrome team took part in the Pwn2Own hacking contest and hosted its own, the third iteration of its Pwnium competition. While there weren’t any “winning” entries at Pwnium – i.e., no fu…
Sophisticated Rating System for Cyber Attacks Proposed
It has long been suggested that ‘advanced’ is a misnomer in the majority of APTs; and that ‘sophisticated’ has lost its meaning. Is it time for an objective attack rating to eliminate emotive, subjective and misleading threat terminology?