Friday, 11 October 2024

Mumsnet, one of the UK’s largest parenting websites, has come under several attacks from hackers, one of which involved armed police being called out to the London home of the parenting site's co-founder. Some accounts were hijacked and the site’s administrative functions accessed. Additionally, there was an attempt to force Mumsnet offline by swamping it with internet traffic, in what is known as a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack.

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IT Security Firm ESET, have released an application which allows users to find out if their Android device is vulnerable to the critical Stagefright vulnerability.

In a new blog post on ESET’s ‘We Live Security’ website, Raphael Labaca Castro discusses the Stagefright vulnerability which may have left 950 million Android devices vulnerable.

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LONDON, UK: In series of case studies just published, global information security consultancy, MWR InfoSecurity, has revealed the characteristics of ten different cyber-attacks. Each paper, produced with the support of the UK’s Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure, aims to help organisations understand how these attacks are conducted. Describing real-world events, they also help show the potential impact of attacks and the failures that lead to compromise.

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London, UK: Imperva, Inc., has launched its Imperva SecureSphere 11.5. The latest release of the industry-leading SecureSphere platform, which includes Web Application Firewall and Database Activity Monitoring, is designed to block attacks that attempt to compromise web application user accounts, extends SecureSphere data protection to Amazon Web Services and adds data protection for next generation big data engines.

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