Day: June 25, 2019

Telcos around the world were so severely pwned, they didn’t notice the hackers setting up VPN points

Posted on by Robin Edgar

Hackers infiltrated the networks of at least ten cellular telcos around the world, and remained hidden for years, as part of a long-running tightly targeted surveillance operation, The Register has learned. This espionage campaign is still ongoing, it is claimed. Cyber-spy hunters at US security firm Cybereason told El Reg on Monday the miscreants responsible Read more about Telcos around the world were so severely pwned, they didn’t notice the hackers setting up VPN points[…]

BGP super-blunder: How Verizon today sparked a ‘cascading catastrophic failure’ that knackered Cloudflare, Amazon, etc

Posted on by Robin Edgar

Verizon sent a big chunk of the internet down a black hole this morning – and caused outages at Cloudflare, Facebook, Amazon, and others – after it wrongly accepted a network misconfiguration from a small ISP in Pennsylvania, USA. For nearly three hours, web traffic that was supposed to go to some of the biggest Read more about BGP super-blunder: How Verizon today sparked a ‘cascading catastrophic failure’ that knackered Cloudflare, Amazon, etc[…]

When Myspace Was King, Employees Abused a Tool Called ‘Overlord’ to Spy on Users

Posted on by Robin Edgar

During the social network’s heyday, multiple Myspace employees abused an internal company tool to spy on users, in some cases including ex-partners, Motherboard has learned. Named ‘Overlord,’ the tool allowed employees to see users’ passwords and their messages, according to multiple former employees. While the tool was originally designed to help moderate the platform and Read more about When Myspace Was King, Employees Abused a Tool Called ‘Overlord’ to Spy on Users[…]

U.S. and Iran’s Hackers Are Trading Blows

Posted on by Robin Edgar

Chris Krebs, the director of the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, issued a statement on June 22 following similar warnings from private American cybersecurity firms. Krebs, whose recently renamed agency is tasked with protecting American critical infrastructure, said CISA is “aware of a recent rise in malicious cyber activity” against American Read more about U.S. and Iran’s Hackers Are Trading Blows[…]