Friday, March 17, 2000

Hack Attacks: Who's responsible?
• Massive attack knocks Yahoo! Offline
• Leading Web sites under attack
• Hacker steals 100,000 credit card numbers, threatens to post them online

I'm sure you've all heard about these recent episodes. Several major web sites were crippled early last month, making them unavailable for several hours. Additionally, there have been recent incidents of web extortion where hackers have stolen up to 100,000 credit numbers from e-commerce sites. The data was then held ransom in the hopes that the compromised sites would pay up to save public humiliation and loss of customer confidence. These high-visibility events have helped to make the average computer user more aware of the security issues associated with being online. People are starting to ask, "Who's responsible?"

posted by @ 02:03 PM EST [more..]

March 2000
S	M	T	W	T	F	S
			1	2	3	4
5	6	7	8	9	10	11
12	13	14	15	16	17	18
19	20	21	22	23	24	25
26	27	28	29	30	31

Navigation:

Home
Archives
About Me
Articles
Email
News Feed
Projects

My Blogroll:

Security Advisories:

Anti-Phishing
AUSCERT
BugBlog
CERIAS
CERT
CIAC
Cisco Advisories
F-Secure
iDefense
ISS XForce
McAfee
Windows Security
Oracle Alerts
Secunia
Security Corporation
Security Focus
Security Tracker
SGI Advisories
Sun Alerts
Symantec
Trend Micro
Zone-H

Defacements Archive:

Zone-H Digital Archive

Security News:

DShield
Help Net Security
Internet Storm Center
Linux Security
NewsNow: Encryption/Security
NewsNow: Hacking
Packet Storm
Securiteam
Security News Portal
Security Stats
Security Focus
Risks Digest
Zone-H

Security Tools:

Packet Storm
Astalavista
Help Net Security
Packet Factory
Security Focus