Update: Credit card firm hit by DDoS attack
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Credit card processing firm Authorize.Net said today that it was the target of a large-scale distributed denial-of-service attack that had caused disruptions for customers.
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What a surprise -- credit card issuers aren't exactly playing nice.
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Hackers who struck TJX Cos.' computer system into last year exploited many security problems and violations of credit card handling rules within the Framingham retailer's data network, according to a recent court filing by a former MasterCard official.
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US website Monster.com suffers an online attack with the data of hundreds of thousands of users stolen.
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New threat: Phishing attempts that ask the victim to call their bank to reactivate a credit card, then provide a false phone number.
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Thousands of credit card numbers and other personal data may have been compromised.
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Don't bet on getting it back The FBI has frozen access to Neteller accounts as part of its ongoing investigation into the company.â¦
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Spammers are suspected of hacking into and downing Lycosâs anti-spam Web site just hours after it went live. The Web site is currently inaccessible and could also be the victim of a DDoS attack.
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A leading internet credit card processor is under siege by a denial-of-service attack, slowing its servers and leaving many customers high and dry. By Noah Shachtman.
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CastleCops.com and similar good-guy sites are hard hit by distributed denial-of-service attacks.
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It was just a name, one of dozens flowing by in a little-known Internet chat room for identity thieves. Sandwiched between requests to barter various kinds of ill-gotten data ("Trading one valid [credit card] for my 5mb proxy list or hosting" ... "[need] linux host to put my site on.. i have cvv2's, msg me to deal") and inane chatter ("wat u upto?") came the simple, unadorned lines: "card type: Debit Card ... Name: Dallas Thomas ... city: Stillwater ... state: ok."
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Good-guy sites, like CastleCops.com, are suffering Web site outages from distributed denial-of-service attacks.
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The WordPress.com blog-hosting service suffered a DoS (denial-of-service) attack that began Saturday and was still preventing users from logging in or posting to their blogs on Tuesday.Matt Mullenweg, spokesman for Automattic, confirmed that the service experienced a DoS attack with spikes of up to 6 gigabits of incoming traffic, which was making some blogs inaccessible for about five to 15 minutes on Tuesday. Though service had mostly been restored, Automattic, which maintains WordPress.com, was still working on returning service to normal levels on Tuesday afternoon, he said.&quot;Obviously that [is not good] and is pretty unusual for our service,&quot; he said. &quot;All our people who can are working on the issue.&quot;However, an employee at a New York-based company that has blogs hosted by WordPress.com suggested that some users were experiencing outages for longer than 15 minutes. The source, who asked not to be identified, said on Tuesday afternoon that users there were unable to log in to their blogs and post comments for &quot;most of the day.&quot; However, the blogs were still able to be viewed publicly.&quot;It&#39;s starting to come back to life now, slowly,&quot; said the source on Tuesday afternoon.WordPress.com users were notified via e-mail about the DoS attack. In the e-mail, the service provider said that the attack was affecting user log-in and causing some forums to be offline.Mullenweg said that the main Wordpress.com page was down longer than some blogs because &quot;we sacrificed it in order to keep blogs and our users up.&quot; However, the site&#39;s home page and Web site were up and running on Tuesday.He also provided a link to a graph that shows the traffic spikes to WordPress.com on the graph, where the service&#39;s traffic is displayed in a brown line.A DoS attack is an attempt to make a Web site or service unavailable to intended users by flooding the service or site with incoming data requests, such as e-mails. Motives for DoS attacks vary, but perpetrators mostly target companies with high-profile, highly trafficked Web sites.Joris Evers, a spokesman for security research and software company McAfee, said DoS attacks are still fairly common, although they have tapered off in recent years because technology has been developed that can head off such attacks before they affect service.Though he had not heard specifically of the WordPress attack, Evers said that it&#39;s possible the attack was mounted by someone &quot;who was upset about something that was written on a WordPress blog, and they decided to take action against that.&quot;
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The domain registrar and hosting firm reports disrupted service Sunday from distributed denial-of-service attacks.
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Software vendor mulls how to compensate Chinese comupter users effected by a buggy antivirus update last week.
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The tricky business of thwarting online fraud Logistic and technical issues have hampered the rollout of a system designed to thwart phishing scams by UK bank Barclays.â¦
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Reposted in the queue as it's impossible or at least very complicated to move it as I asked (although the post where aphrael said such thing disappeared so perhaps this is not the case after all - another minor K5 mystery).  The original discussion can be found here (read it as there are some clarifications by rusty). All right, here is the (adapted) diary. Rusty posted a comment in the diary entitled "Would you pay 10USD for K5 Life Membership?" saying that K5 will become a pay site once new user registrations will be reactivated: "I was thinking $5.00 (none / 0) (#18) by rusty on Thu Sep 06, 2007 at 04:42:15 PM CET But it would actually be charged. That plus a hash of the identifying CC info so you only get one account ever, and I think we'd either shrivel up to nothing and die, or solve the spamming and crapflooding issues. Funny that someone else is thinking about this right now. It'll probably happen before I turn new signups back on." This of course begs the question: HIBT? If so I'll bite (see some considerations under the fold).