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DDoS attacks motivated by politics not criminality, Arbor Networks finds
Large Internet organisations believe ideological and political motivations have become the single commonest motivation behind the DDoS attacks hitting their networks, a survey of major Internet firms by has found.
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M86 Security discover fragmented AJAX-based Web exploitation attacks
Security researchers from Web filtering vendor M86 Security have detected Web exploitation attacks that use AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) to fragment the payload into small pieces of code that are harder to detect by antivirus programs and intrusion prevention systems.
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Stonesoft researchers evade enterprise IPS network protection
Finnish security firm Stonesoft claims to have developed 163 new attack methods that can evade network intrusion detection and prevention systems (IDPS) over multiple communication protocols including IPv4, IPv6, TCP and HTTP.
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VMware vShield to add data loss prevention tools
At the upcoming VMworld conference, VMware plans to highlight new data loss prevention capabilities in an updated version of its virtual system security product, vShield.
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HP takes on Cisco with own-brand unified data centre networks
At Interop this week, HP unveiled products supporting a new architecture that attempts to unify enterprise data centre, campus and branch networks under a common and consistent operating environment.
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Vendors fix firewalls after controversial NSS Labs test
Four out of the five vendors shown last month by testing company NSS Labs to suffer a security flaw in their high-end firewalls have since patched their products, including two companies that disputed the issue at the time.
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Meru to launche Wi-Fi hardware aimed at removing Ethernet edge switches
Meru's new Wi-Fi gear combines a trio of powerful 802.11n radios with a battery of new software that together will let enterprises replace wired Ethernet at the network's edge, the company says.
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Sony PlayStation outage: DDoS not to blame
The unprecedented shutdown of Sony?s PlayStation Network (PSN) has reached its third day with the company?s best explanation as to the cause remaining yesterday?s mention of ?external intrusion?.
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Fortinet unhappy with tests showing firewall flaw
Security vendor Fortinet has hit back against tests by NSS Labs that showed one of its high-end firewalls along with products from other vendors could be hacked using a ?TCP split handshake attack'.
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Hackers avoiding encryption with memory scraping
What's "pervasive memory scraping" and why is it considered by SANS Institute security researchers to be among the most dangerous attack techniques likely to be used in coming the coming year?
