victim
Massive DDOS Attack Targeted P2PNet
Often when a voice becomes clearly distinguishable, pertinent and with the ability of forming opinions and inspiring dissidence, efforts are made to silence it. Earlier this week, the crew at p2pnet for whom we have great respect and appreciation has been the victim of such efforts. To cut to the chase here’s what the website read a few days ago: Someone out there wants to stop p2pnet from broadcasting news and information the powers-that-used-to-be don’t want reported.
Continue reading »Google and China: the attacks and their aftermath
Yesterday’s announcement that Google would stop censoring its search results in China , and that the company had been the victim of sophisticated Chinese cyberattacks, was a Big Deal; Secretary of State Hilary Clinton even felt the need to weigh in on it with an official statement. And she wasn’t the only one with an opinion, insight, or suggestion to share.
Continue reading »Net safety lessons will be ‘compulsory’ in UK
“We hope that ‘zip it, block it, flag it’ will become as familiar to this generation as ’stop, look, listen’ did to the last’,” says UK prime minister Gordon Brown. In the background is news that Child Exploitation and Online Protection , dedicated to “eradicating the sexual abuse of children” has introduced a ‘panic button’. It’s been added to Bebo to “enhance its existing ‘Report Abuse’ functionality,” p2pnet quoted CEOP as saying earlier today.
Continue reading »Men in skirts
“It’s hard enough to get kids to concentrate on an algorithm – even without Jimmy sitting there in lipstick and fake eyelashes.” The quote is from a New York Times article slugged Can a Boy Wear a Skirt to School? and it comes in a Jenna McWilliams blog post sleeping alone and starting out early . Way back, during the summer in Toronto, I used to wear a green sarong because it was cool and comfortable.
Continue reading »New Malware Re-Writes Online Bank Statements to Cover Fraud
New malware being used by cybercrooks does more than let hackers loot a bank account; it hides evidence of a victim’s dwindling balance by rewriting online bank statements on the fly, according to a new report. The sophisticated hack uses a Trojan horse program installed on the victim’s machine that alters html coding before it’s displayed in the user’s browser, to either erase evidence of a money transfer transaction entirely from a bank statement, or alter the amount of money transfers and balances. The ruse buys the crooks time before a victim discovers the fraud, though won’t work if a victim uses an uninfected machine to check his or her bank balance.
Continue reading »