Internet outage or no outage? That is the question. DHS Cyber Highlights Sept 16th
Friday, September 16th, 2011Twitter users tweeted September 14 about a “rather large Internet outage” affecting access to the site, but an Internet traffic expert said he did not see major problems. The Internet Traffic Report showed problems for a period of time for some routers serving North America. Specifically, three routers in Canada were registering zero response time [...]
Maryland man indicted copyright infringement of commercial software: Cyber Highlights Jan. 20th
Thursday, January 20th, 2011Hello Everyone from New Orleans! We are at the SANS Security East Conference and it is great to be back in the Big Easy. We are VERY excited about eating beignets. Here is today’s news… A federal grand jury indicted a Baltimore, Maryland man, age 30, January 18 for illegally reproducing and distributing over 100 [...]
Malware campaign cyber-espionage or cyber-crime? Cyber Highlights Jan. 5th 2011
Wednesday, January 5th, 2011The crew behind the Kneber botnet that made headlines in 2010 may have surfaced again in a malware campaign targeting employees of various governments. The botnet, which pushes out the Zeus Trojan, was spotted around Christmas time spamming out malware through a phony holiday message from the White House. Those who received the card and [...]