Posts Tagged ‘british prime minister’

Margaret Thatcher’s Death Used in Cyber Attacks

Apr

2013

As the world remembers former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, cyber attackers are participating too, but in their own tricky ways. Websense® Security Labs™ and the Websense ThreatSeeker® Network have detected that attackers are sending malicious email spam with a topic referencing the death of Mrs. Thatcher. Actually, it is not new for an attacker to use a hot […]

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Anonymous attacks UK Prime Minister and Home Office websites with DDoS assault

Apr

2012

Anonymous hacktivists have launched a distributed denial-of-service attack against the websites of 10 Downing Street and the British government’s Home Office website, preventing legitimate users from visiting the sites by flooding them with unwanted internet traffic.The hacktivists, operating under the Anonymous banner, say that they have launched the action in support of Pentagon hacker Gary […]

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Social-networking to blame for social unrest?

Aug

2011

We see this morning a post about British Prime Minister Cameron’s assertion yesterday during a Parliament presentation that, “Free flow of information can be used for good. But it can also be used for ill. And when people are using social media for violence, we need to stop them.” Sort of hearkens back to the […]

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