Assange served as the gateway for stolen US government documents that appeared to be an attempt to influence the US election process. The documents were rumored to come from the Russian government and an enigmatic lone-wolf hacker known as Guccifer 2.0.
Category: Hacking and Security
Well, that didn’t last long – DDoS record broken again with 990Gbps flood
Security researcher Brian Krebs’ website hit with largest ever DDoS attack – 665 Gbps!
Security researcher Brian Krebs of KrebsOnSecurity reported today that his site was hit with a walloping 665 Gbps DDoS attack. The attack included SYN and HTTP floods and peaked at 153 Mpps (million packets per second). Krebs’ site remained online, the attack mitigated by Akami’s DDoS protection service.
How to tell if you’re on a government watchlist (and how to get on and off the wild ride)
Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) – how to create a Linux hacking toolkit that runs on Windows 10
Poodlecorp DDoS attack brings down Blizzard’s battle.net servers
Ouch – US-CERT advisory for this week deals a sharp slap in the face to Adobe
On the heels of the Hacking Team dump, this week’s US-CERT advisory, a cyber-security bulletin which provides a summary of new security vulnerabilities, was about twice its usual size with all the Adobe Level 10 alerts included in the report. Remind me – why are these products still around?
Are Wild Neutron’s latest attacks related to the zero-day exploit(s) in Hacking Team’s drop?
Both Kaspersky and Symantec released reports this week pointing out the increase in attacks by Wild Neutron (aka Jripbot, Morpho, or Butterfly). WN had gone mostly dormant (or undetected?) since 2013 after hitting Apple, Facebook, Twitter, and Microsoft using zero-day Java exploits (seeded in the hacked forums of various websites) and the OSX/Pintsized Mac OS…
14 days running a secret Dark Web pedophile honeypot (and why I now think Tor is the devil)
JPMorgan Chase security breach not what you think – military attack against key financial institutions could turn over keys to the kingdom.
Although I’m disappointed that JPMorgan Chase delayed the disclosure of the breach that touched more than 83 million U.S. households (they knew about it at least four months ago), I’m even more upset at what they disclosed – that key customer financial data was not stolen. JPMorgan may tout the expertise of their security team…








