A “distributed denial of service” attack – or what security gurus call a DDoS attack – is a little like what happens to Groundhog.org on Groundhog Day. For 364 days out of the year, nobody cares about groundhog fun facts. And then on Groundhog Day-BOOM! Third-graders, Bill Mu...
The Department of Homeland Security and National Institute of Standards and Technology are looking to beat back the kudzu of spam generators, distributed denial of service zombies, and other botnets, and they want your cooperation—on a totally voluntary basis, of course. After a long and escalatin...
Every year, the Privacy Office of DHS presents a speaker series of outside experts. This year, they will focus on Cybersecurity and Privacy, with the first event kicking off today (26 July at 10AM). These events are open to all federal workers (employees and contractors) and qualify for continuing e...
via ZDNet The distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on government Web sites of both South Korea and United States in 2009 and more recently in March this year could have been a “reconnaissance operation” by a cyber army launched on behalf of North Korea. This assessment was put fo...