#OpFrance CyberJihad Attacking French Websites By Thousands

Twitter is aflame with the various tweets of the attackers and viewers of what is going on:     After my quick review of the top ten in our Security Analyzed page this morning, I saw NakedSecurityBlog https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2015/01/17/cyberjihadists-attack-thousands-of-french-websites-after-charlie-hebdo-massacre/ With a review of http://www.thelocal.fr/20150116/hackers-take-down-20000-french-websites website with the headline: “Islamist hackers attack 20,000 French websites”   It … Read more

Still Discussing Sony Attack … but why?

The reason is that it was a _Destructive_ attack. Credit card numbers were not stolen. Data was deleted and stolen. Highly unusual attack. Dark Reading  has a story on the “destructive” attack. http://www.darkreading.com/how-not-to-be-the-next-sony-defending-against-destructive-attacks-/d/d-id/1318516 ” “If your only goal is to do damage,” says Jonathan Sander, strategy and research officer for Stealthbits Technologies, “you don’t need a lot … Read more

Amazing to note Telnet vulnerability Patch Tuesday

Microsoft has a Telnet  vulnerability which has a critical remote code execution. (MS15-002) https://technet.microsoft.com/library/security/ms15-jan This is true:  “Only customers who enable telnet on Windows 2003 are affected (it is installed but not enabled). and Telnet is not installed on Vista or later operating systems” But if you did enable (or install and enable) it has … Read more

Credit Card Thieves Caught in Saint Louis area

Fox2 a local TV media channel (in Saint Louis area) has the story: http://fox2now.com/2015/01/12/police-bust-credit-card-thieves-from-detroit/   Why do I bring this up in a cyber security blog? Due to this little info blurb: “Maryland Heights police searched the vehicle, and found fake Michigan drivers’ licenses, dozens of pre-paid MasterCard gift cards, and pricey electronics.” and “Fedak … Read more

Krebs notes Lizard attacked Sony with home routers

The hacker group Lizard Squad  that attacked Sony and Microsoft on Christmas day: http://oversitesentry.com/christmas-hacking-while-you-were-out/ This was the result of their attack:   Brian Krebs has done research (as he does) and has found that the Lizard group has been hacking default password home routers around the world, and it seems they used them to attack … Read more