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Russian election ‘cyber attack’ brings down websites

05

Dec

2011

Could elections in Russia have resulted in internet attacks on websites claiming that the vote was being fixed? This weekend’s vote, which saw a slump in support for the United Russia party of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and President Dmitry Medvedev, has taken place against a backdrop of arrests, claims of election violations, and – […]

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UK police foiled attack on royal wedding website

19

Nov

2011

Police detained a 16-year-old on Oct. 10 in relation to “a suspected attempt to encourage others to commit a distributed denial-of-service attack,” according to a spokesman from the cybercrime unit who was quoted in a report from the Associated Press. The spokesman also said that the teenager is out on bail and has not yet […]

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Mystery flaw crashing DNS servers across the internet

17

Nov

2011

A zero-day vulnerability is causing BIND 9 DNS servers to crash across the internet. The flaw, described as an “as-yet unidentified network event”, appears to be a denial of service vulnerability being exploited in-the-wild. The flaw affects all supported versions of BIND. The internet Systems Consortium (ISC) have described the problem as follows: An as-yet […]

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