It looks like international website defacing is on the rise, I have heard several reports over the past few days of international websites being defaced, most of these were religiously oriented sites. On CNN tonight I found out that the Web site of Iraq’s most influential Shiite cleric was hacked Friday, with the attackers’ messages […]
Governor Palin’s E-Mail Hack
See Added Notes Below: There were two things that shocked me about Sarah Palin’s email account being hacked, the first was the obvious, that someone would do something so bold and absolutely crazy, ha. The other thing that really shocked me was that the Governor of a state would actually have a Yahoo email account, […]
U.S. Cyberattacks?
Just reading CNN.com this morning (my morning ritual) and ran across this news report that was apparently filed earlier this morning and I thought it was pretty interesting. This isn’t anything that those of us in the hosting industry haven’t been hearing off and on since 9/11 but given what happened to Georgia just prior […]
Elaborate Facebook Worm…
I was just talking to Brent Worley and he was telling me about a friend of ours that had their Facebook Account Hacked somehow and they were wall posting executables, etc. I have been pretty busy lately and hadn’t heard of anything like that out there so I did a little research and came upon […]
Harvard University Website Hacked
I ran into this article on the WHIR this morning and thought that it was pretty comical. Their website for their Graduate School or the Arts was compromised on Sunday, and don’t get me wrong that parts not funny by any means, but the comedy of this story is how they were hacked. Apparently some […]
Valentine’s Day Worm Email…
I am signed up to receive alerts and security notifications from the FBI and CERT when there are potential threats to Internet and email security, this one came down today and I have heard a lot of buzz about it the past few days so I thought that it was worthy to post a note […]
Book Review: Maximum Apache Security
About a year or so ago we were working pretty hard with our server admin to harden our servers against potential threats such as remote shell executions, bots, and xss vulnerabilities. It was a frustrating time for me because there were a lot of elements that I couldn’t get my mind around, fortunately our server […]
FBI Investigates Ticket Site “Attack”
Ran across this article on WHIR this morning and thought that it was pretty interesting. Apparently a website operated by The Colorado Rockies that handles ticketing for their games had some issues staying online while a lot of people were trying to get tickets to the world series games, here is a Link to Web […]
Hackers Steal Data from Monster.com
I actually heard about this yesterday on CNN. Not good at all. I haven’t been able to get any real technical details on the breach other that reports from Symantec and a few others saying that it’s a big one… Why would Monster.com be a target for Hackers? I don’t get that one… Link to […]
Credit card breach exposes 40 million accounts
In what could be the largest data security breach in the world to date, information on 40 million credit card accounts might have been stolen. The massive breach follows several high-profile data loss incidents that potentially exposed American consumers to identity theft. The incident also comes as the public expresses increasing concern over identity theft. […]