Adobe fixes critical vulnerabilities in Flash Player
Adobe on Tuesday issued a patch for Flash Player to address multiple vulnerabilities that could enable an attacker to take control of an affected system or execute arbitrary code.
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New Sality variant contains moneymaking twist
The newest variant of the Sality virus combines a little bit of old and a little bit of new to infect users.
New style of DNS amplification can yield powerful DDoS attacks
The coming wave of distributed denial-of-service attacks will leverage non-recursive DNS name servers to overwhelm targets, and many ISPs likely are vulnerable, a researcher said this week.
Muslim hackers attack Israeli websites as Gaza strikes continue
Muslim extremists are targeting Israeli websites, as the conflict in the Gaza Strip rages on, with no end in sight.
Fending off network attacks: University of Miami and Top Layer
With attackers shifting their focus to applications, the IT team at University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine, decided it was time to upgrade the school’s intrusion prevention solution, reports Greg Masters.
2008: A year of cybercriminal innovation
With the emergence of new attack techniques and the reinvention of old ones, 2008 has been a year of cybercriminal innovation.
iPhone and iPod touch 2.2 update addresses flaws
The vulnerabilities can be maliciously exploited to bypass certain security restrictions.
Study: Internet service providers facing more, larger threats
The scale of distributed denial of service attacks has grown 100-fold since 2001, leaving some ISPs with long outages.
Church of Scientology website hacker charged
Dmitriy Guzner, a member of the underground hacker group Anonymous, faces up to a decade in prison for his role in the DDoS hack against the Church of Scientology website.
European hackers charged with DDoS attacks in the U.S.
Two European men have been charged with hacking U.S. retail websites and causing more than $400,000 in damage through a series of distributed denial-of-service attacks in 2003.
