- DDoS as a diversionary tactic: While keeping the Security staff busy with a ‘low-powered’ DDoS, attackers took over the wire payment switch at several US banks.
- APT: Read how Attackers are refining their tactics, using public cloud services to bypass monitoring or leveraging well known off-the-shelf tools for their attacks.
- ENISA, the European Union Agency for Network and Information Security issued their Annual Incident Report 2012 providing an overview of the major outage incidents in the EU in 2012. Pierluigi Paganini wrote a summary of it in the Securityaffairs Blog.
- “Spying NSA”: Listen (at your own risk) how an update of the Beach Boys song “Surfin USA” sounds at this years CRYPTO conference. And in case you want to sing along, here are the lyrics.
German:
- PRISM@CH: Ein Artikel in der Weltwoche sinniert darüber, wie und wo in der Schweiz Traffic gesnifft wird und wie das damit rechtlich aussieht.
- Ist das Trusted Platform Module (TPM) Version 2.0 als Hintertür für Geheimdienste gedacht? Die Deutsche Bundesregierung warnt vor Windows 8. – Ach nee doch nicht!
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