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Diginotar: Iranians – The Real Target

05

Sep

2011

In this blog posting, we present concrete evidence that the recent compromise of Dutch Certification Authority Diginotar was used for spying on Iranian Internet users on a large scale.We found that Internet users in more than 40 different networks of ISPs and universities in Iran were confronted with rogue SSL certificates issued by Diginotar. Even […]

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Hackers deface Libya’s top level domain registry with anti-Gadaffi message

22

Aug

2011

With heavy fighting reaching the compound of Libyan leader Colonel Gadaffi’s compound, hackers have also taken virtual arms overnight and defaced the website of domain name registry nic.ly. Hackers calling themselves “Electr0n” have defaced the nic.ly website, the main registry which administers .ly domain names (the “.ly” stands for “Libya”) and replaced it with a […]

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1000 days of Conficker

17

Aug

2011

It has been 1,000 days since the Conficker worm first appeared on November 21, 2008. For the first two months after its initial appearance we received a trickle of reports through our ThreatSense.NET telemetry system. By January of 2009 that had become a flood, and then a deluge, as this “super worm” rose to meteoric […]

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