Anonymous and the City of Toronto
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford is confident that City of Toronto systems are secure after a threat from hacking group Anonymous. I read that in an article from SC Magazine. He really couldn’t say anything else, but I wonder if he…
Greece, a Referendum and Security
About now, some people will be pontificating that if Greek citizens vote down austerity measures, Greece will run out of money in a matter of days, and that the world/European economy will go into a tailspin shortly thereafter. I suspect that…
Keyloggers 101
Great video post from the Ethical Hacker Network on Keyloggers. Shows the basics about keyloggers, how hidden they are, and how to detect them.
Lotus Domino Denial of Service Attack
Credits to Tom Duff. Packet Storm is reporting a Lotus Domino Denial of Service issue… # Exploit Title: Lotus Domino SMTP router, EMAIL server and client DoS – all 3 may crash # Date: July 16, 2011 # Author: None – looks…
Bioware Account Breach
I got an email the other day, one I wasn’t expecting to receive, because I wasn’t even aware that the organization had a data breach. (But then, how could I? They’ve been coming fast and furious for a while now.)…
Security Review – 6/7/2011
Similar to a number of other breaches (Sony, Epsilon, Lockheed-Martin), hackers seem to mostly be targeting the ‘larger’ targets, that will bring a lot of public exposure. The Conservative Party of Canada site was the target of such an attack this…
Hackers target Conservative Party website
Despite news on the Conservative Party of Canada website, Prime Minister Stephen Harper was not airlifted to a hospital in Toronto following a choking incident at breakfast with his children. In fact, it was an attack by hackers targeting the…
Hackers make off with Government of Canada data
Back in April 2010, two groups (The Citizen Lab and The SecDev Group) discovered that government computers in 103 countries were compromised by hackers from China. They wrote about it in a published report called Shadows in the Cloud. Fast…
