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eleven Survey Lists Spam as Greatest Email Security Threat in Ten Years

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by Justin Lee

December 2, 2011

German email security solutions provider eleven announced on Friday it has released the results of its tenth anniversary survey, which shows the surgence in the volume of spam was the greatest threat to IT and email security in the past ten years.

The report comes a week after its November 2011 spam report which showed that German companies continue to feel threatened by spam and malware and are planning to make additional investments in the areas of email and Internet security. The report, which is based on a survey of German IT decision-makers, saw a total of 35.6 percent of the responses indicated that spam growth was the most dangerous trend in the past 10 years. This was followed by phishing with 33.7 percent of responses, and botnets with 16.3 percent of responses.

Security Provider Symantec Says VeriSign Trust Seal Views Up 60 Percent from 2010

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by Nicole Henderson

November 29, 2011

Security firm Symantec announced on Tuesday that its VeriSign trust seals have been viewed by as many as 800 million people a day in 2011.

This news comes on the heels of Cyber Monday as online sales were up 33 percent from 2010, according to data released by IBM on Tuesday. Symantec says views of its trust seals is up 60 percent from last year, and that 2011 marks the fifth consecutive year in which daily seal views have increased. Symantec claims that its seals are especially important to online consumers during the holiday shopping season.

Prolexic Launches DDoS Attack Research Service, Issues Attack Study

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by Liam Eagle

November 18, 2011

DDoS mitigation service provider Prolexic announced on Thursday that it has created a new department, the Prolexic Security Engineering and Response Team, which will provide clients with detailed pre- and post-attack data as a subscription service.

Prolexic says the PLXSERT group was formed as an internal piece of the organization in February of 2011, and has been providing select clients with forensic data since then, based on the company's insight into global DDoS threats and attack patters, as well as information on specific client attacks. "Feedback from clients has been so positive that the service is now being made available on a subscription basis to all Prolexic clients," says the company, in the press release announcing the new service.

4Chan Website Back Online After Days of Sustained DDoS Attack

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by Liam Eagle

November 16, 2011

Paul Mutton of Netcraft reports that 4Chan first went down on Sunday, posting an update to its Blogger-hosted status page.

"Site down due to a large DDoS attack," read the notice. "We hope to have it back up soon." On Tuesday, the board's operators identified the attack as a UDP packet flood on Port 80, in a notice that was later amended to identify the attack as a TCP SYN flood. According to Mutton, 4Chan was used to recruit volunteers (to a kind of voluntary botnet) when the group Anonymous first began using DDoS attacks as a punitive tool against companies that withdrew services from the whistle-blowing site WikiLeaks in the wake of its release of a series of secret US diplomatic cables in late 2010 - a list that includes Visa, MasterCard, PayPal and others.

.XXX Domain Land Rush Period Begins

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by Liam Eagle

November 8, 2011

Registries offering the soon-to-be launched adult-focused .xxx top-level domain began the land rush period on Tuesday.

The .xxx domain was a long time in development, facing opposition from adult industry proponents who expressed concern that their business and their websites could be "ghettoized" by the domain, and that the existence of a .xxx domain in the first place - with the rules that accompany it - implicitly suggest that the online adult industry was not capable of policing itself.

Dutch Telecommunications Firm KPN Stops Issuing SSL Certificates After Hack Detected

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by Nicole Henderson

November 7, 2011

Dutch telecommunications provider KPN announced on Friday that it will cease issuance of SSL certificates in light of indications that its website used for purchasing certificates may have been hacked.

According to a press release, the server under investigation could have been hacked as long as four years ago though it is unclear how the hack was detected. KPN's corporate IT services branch, KPN Corporate Market, issues the certificates. This news comes less than two months after Dutch certificate authority DigiNotar filed for bankruptcy since a security breach in July. Not made public until August, the DigiNotar security breach let fraudulent SSL certificates in the wild, some of which were used to spy on Iranian email communication.

Belgium Web Host Shuts Down Server After Duqu Virus Detected

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by Nicole Henderson

November 4, 2011

Researchers at Symantec have identified a sample of the Duqu virus configured to communicate with a specific server at Belgium web hosting company Combell Group.

According to a report by Reuters on Thursday, Symantec notified Combell that one of its servers was being used for malicious activity on Tuesday. Two days later, Combell shut down that server. This latest development comes a week after Indian authorities seized servers from a data center in Mumbai belonging to web hosting provider Web Werks. Its server was also communicating with computers infected with Duqu.

Authorities Seize Suspected Duqu Botnet Control Servers from Indian Web Host

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by Nicole Henderson

November 1, 2011

Indian authorities seized servers from a data center in Mumbai as part of a larger investigation into the Duqu botnet, according to a report by Reuters.

Web hosting provider Web Werks say that officials from India's Department of Information Technology took several hard drives and other server parts last week. According to the report, Symantec told Web Werks that the server was communicating with computers infected with Duqu.

Akamai Report Names Taiwan Number-One Source of Attack Traffic

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by Liam Eagle

October 28, 2011

A new report published this week by content delivery network operator Akamai points to Taiwan as the new top source of "attack traffic" on the Internet.

Akamai's State of the Internet report for the second quarter of 2011 showed 10 percent of attack traffic originating in Taiwan, an increase from 9.1 percent in the previous quarter, and enough to push the country ahead of previous number one Myanmar, which generated 9.1. The United States was third with 8.3 percent.

Hackers Issue New DDoS Attack Tool to Expose SSL Flaw

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by Justin Lee

October 25, 2011

A group of German hackers released on Monday a new tool that allows a single computer to take down a web server using a secure connection, according to a report by CNET.

The THC-SSL-DOS tool takes advantage of a flaw found in the SSL renegotiation protocol by innundating it with continued requests for secure connections. SSL renegotiation allows Websites to create a new security key over an already established SSL connection. The group, dubbed The Hackers Choice, said its motivation for issuing the exploit is to expose the flaws in SSL.

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