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Business-focused social network LinkedIn is continuing to recover from a DNS error that took the site offline for an hour. The outage began when the popular service's homepage was replaced ...
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Im Internet ist der Streit zwischen einer Organisation zur Spam-Bekämpfung und einer niederländischen Firma eskaliert. Eine gigantische DDoS-Attacke auf die Spamhaus-Gruppe bremste offenbar den Verkehr im gesamten Internet.
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Massive distributed denial of service attacks on Spamhaus this week focused widespread attention on the huge security threats posed by millions of poorly configured Internet Domain Name System servers.
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A MUST read, great article who explains in detail...
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- http://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet?tag=DNS-HACK
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A fight between a spam-fighting group called Spamhaus and a Dutch Web host Cyberbunker has been called the biggest public DDoS battle in history. Read this article by Don Reisinger on CNET News.
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A MUST read, big fights are going on...
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- http://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet?tag=DNS-HACK
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Several "activist hackers" appear to be using DNS poisoning and other attacks against the Domain Name System to divert users away from legitimate sites.
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LinkedIn is working on its right-on-the-ball-with-security reputation, this time letting slip its domain details.
According to this App.net post:
“LinkedIn just got DNS hijacked, and for the last hour or so, all of your traffic has been sent to a network hosted by this company [confluence-networks.com]. And they don't require SSL, so if you tried to visit, your browser sent your long-lived session cookies in plaintext.” (User @berg)
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The largest recorded DDoS attack has been ongoing for over eight days now, causing slowdowns and errors throughout the internet. Is this a one time scenario or does this expose a greater weakness i...
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Une cyberattaque ciblant une entreprise européenne recensant les spams est l'une des plus importantes jamais vues à ce jour, un expert a même assuré qu'elle affectait le fonctionnement du réseau internet.
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Les pirates ont visé Spamhaus, un groupe basé à Genève qui publie des «listes noires» d'adresses de spams dont se servent les messageries pour filtrer les courriels indésirables.
L'attaque a surchargé le réseau mondial, ce qui a vraisemblablement eu des répercussions sur internet, selon Matthew Prince, de la société américaine de sécurité informatique CloudFlare.
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- http://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet?tag=DNS-HACK
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The alternate DNS servers run by the Internet Systems Consortium on the behalf of the Justice Department will remain online until July.
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A number of high profile websites have had access disrupted on Sunday evening by a DNS hack. The Register, The Daily Telegraph, UPS, BetFair and Acer are among those where access has been redirected to an attacker's home page; at the...
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- http://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet/?tag=LinkedIn
Anytime a social media exchange such as this goes dark..questions will be asked