Week in tech: hacktivism, Slowloris, warrantless spying, and insecure keys
From encryption to darknets: As governments snoop, activists fight back : Governments around the world routinely track and monitor cell phones and Internet use. Activists—some funded by the US government—are fighting back with secure communications tools that can be had on the cheap.
High Orbits and Slowlorises: understanding the Anonymous attack tools : Putting the Low-Orbit Ion Cannon behind them to better protect themselves from being tracked down, members of Anonymous have put together a package of DDoS tools and security best practices that aims to make them more effective and less of a target for law enforcement.
Canada wants warrantless Internet spying, says critics support child porn : The Canadian government has introduced legislation that would force telecom providers to turn over Internet subscriber information without a warrant. Public safety minister Vic Toews says critics can "either stand with us or with the child pornographers."
Crypto shocker: four of every 1,000 public keys provide no security : Almost 27,000 certificates used to protect webmail, e-commerce, and other sensitive online services provide no cryptographic benefit due to a lack of randomness in the factors used to generate them. One of the mathematicians who made the discovery calls it "startling."
Tor's latest project helps Iran get back online despite new Internet censorship regime : Tor network connections, which people in Iran use to avoid Internet censorship, plummeted from 50,000 a day to nearly zero last week. But Iranians are getting back online, due in part to a new obfuscated bridge built by Tor.
Major Bitcoin exchange shuts down, blaming regulation and loss of funds : TradeHill, the world's second-largest Bitcoin exchange, shut down Monday, citing "increasing regulation." We talk to a legal expert about how money-laundering laws might apply to businesses that deal in Bitcoins.
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High Orbits and Slowlorises: understanding the Anonymous attack tools : Putting the Low-Orbit Ion Cannon behind them to better protect themselves from being tracked down, members of Anonymous have put together a package of DDoS tools and security best
It might be called the “low-orbit ion cannon.” It's the Distributed Denial of Service Attack (DDoS), the crude but effective and now-ubiquitous tool of hackers throughout the web and favorite weapon of Anonymous. It's a very simple affair: hackers can
While some in the group continued to try to get enthusiastic followers (or unwary webpage visitors) to use a Web browser version of the Low Orbit Ion Cannon attack tool, use of LOIC had led to the arrests of members of Anonymous and LulzSec last summer
While some in the group continued to try to get enthusiastic followers (or unwary webpage visitors) to use a Web browser version of the Low Orbit Ion Cannon attack tool, use of LOIC had led to the arrests of members of Anonymous and LulzSec last summer
For the time being, the Low Orbit Ion Cannon (LOIC) ICMP flooder, and the RefRef web script remain the primary attack tools used by the Anonymous hacktivist collective. Learn more about DNS Amplification attacks, what they are, how they work,