Tags: attack, network

News (1913)

• Australia's cybersecurity needs work

• US military to use network warfare to break enemy

  The special US cyber attack unit US Air Force Cyber Command will use network warfare such as denial of service and confidential data loss as stage one of a physical attack to soften an enemy's defences, according to a senior US general.

• Uecomm's AU network hit by attackers

  Australian Uecomm customers were frustrated by two hours of intermittent service today, as malicious hackers flooded the network with spurious traffic.

• Facebook admits it's the in thing for spammers

  The popular social-networking site Facebook is coming under increased attack by spammers and phishers, the company's security chief has revealed.

• Chinese hackers disable CNN.com for three hours

  CNN.com was knocked offline for three hours shortly after Chinese hackers claimed to have called off a planned denial of service attack against the US publisher.

• US Homeland Security wants a cyber-nuclear bomb

  The US wants to help defend against cyber attacks by embarking on a project that would build the equivalent of an online nuclear bomb.

• What really happened in Estonia's cyberwar?

  One year ago, the Estonian government moved a war memorial honouring Russian-Estonians who died fighting the Nazis, a move that may have triggered what some believe is the first instance of a sustained, international cyberwar.

• Chinese hackers back off from CNN attack

  Late last week, leaders of a group of Chinese hackers called off a planned denial of service attack on CNN.com, after it was reported on the same day that the attack would occur over the weekend, in protest at "anti-Chinese" media across the Western world.

• Cyber terror: Australia faces the storm

  Cyber Storm II, the international simulation of a coordinated attack on global cyber infrastructure, starts this week.

• NATO says cyberwar as dangerous as the real thing

  NATO's cyber-defence chief has warned that computer-based terrorism poses the same threat to national security as a missile attack.

• Storm worm botnet upgraded, prepared for attack

  The owners of the Storm botnet, whose identities are as yet unknown, could be preparing to sell off the "services" of segments of the network, according to Joe Stewart, a researcher from managed security services company SecureWorks.

• Escalating DoS attacks may 'shut down the Internet'

  Denial-of-service attacks are growing faster than bandwidth is being added to the Internet, according to VeriSign, the company that administers the .com domain.

• 50 percent of DNS servers vulnerable

  Security around DNS servers is still a serious issue for network administrators, even though new servers such as BIND 9 are more secure, according to a new survey released this week.

• LinuxWorld shows off Web 2.0 hacks

  LinuxWorld today played host to a demonstration of the vulnerabilities of Web 2.0, with SPI Dynamic's senior security engineer, Matt Fisher, offering some new examples of what criminals are doing online, armed with little more than a desktop browser.

• Pillow talking bots latest Russian malware threat

  Those entering online dating forums risk having more than their hearts stolen, especially if they're chatting to a malicious Russian bot.

• Just In

• Most Popular

• Most Discussed

Hot Spot - What's Important

Footy Club switches to Single Business Communications Solution

Connect growing business demands using Next Dimension Working™

Click here to find out more about Telstra's single solution vendor capabilities

Find out how to combine network connectivity with mobile broadband and IP telephony

Reader Services

Popular Topics

Essentials