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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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Hungarian hotel hacker sentenced to 30 months in prison
A Hungarian hacker who attempted to extort money from Marriott by stealing confidential data from its computers and threatening to expose it was sentenced to 30 months in prison last week.
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MetaFlows launches SaaS intrusion detection agent
Network security monitoring startup MetaFlows launched a new Software-as-a-Service product that can be installed on low-cost hardware to monitor network traffic flow, detect possible intrusions and analyse event logs.
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CloudPassage launches firewall and authentication for cloud servers
CloudPassage is launching a new security product for virtual servers in public clouds such as Amazon Web Services that it says takes care of the all-important need for security when using services from infrastructure providers.
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Hackers crack DreamHost customer database
Web hosting firm DreamHost reset the FTP and shell access passwords for all of its customers on Friday after detecting unauthorised activity within one of its databases.
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Cisco expands electric smart grid portfolio for utilities
Cisco this week expanded its smart grid portfolio for utilities with a reference architecture, products and services intended to modernize the electric grid.
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Gang pulls off $5.2 million bank job via remote access
Criminals in South Africa have carried off a cunning remote access heist that has left one of the country's banks nursing a stunning $5.2 million (R42 million) loss.
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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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Anonymous strikes again? Hackers release elite research firm's subscriber data
Hackers released another batch of data on Thursday pilfered from Stratfor Global Intelligence, a widely used research and analysis company whose website was attacked last weekend.
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New zero-day vulnerabilities discovered in Flash Player
Two newly discovered vulnerabilities in Adobe's Flash Player can be exploited to execute arbitrary code remotely, according to advisories from the US Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) and various security research companies.
