It’s been another wild and crazy week for the security community. Scotland Yard arrested two suspected members of Anonymous and LulzSec Thursday. Meanwhile, the major players in the browser market — Google, Microsoft and the Mozilla Foundation — have chopped Dutch certificate DigiNotar off at the knees, apparently because it was slow to warn that hackers had broken into its network and issued rogue SSL security certificates. Further, a security researcher released information that hackers could use to leverage Google’s massive bandwidth and launch large-scale DDoS attacks.
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Scotland Yard Tightens the Pincers on Anonymous
Posted by: Richard Adhikari September 6, 2011 05:00 AMIt’s been another wild and crazy week for the security community. Scotland Yard arrested two suspected members of Anonymous and LulzSec Thursday. Meanwhile, the major players in the browser market — Google, Microsoft and the Mozilla Foundation — have chopped Dutch certificate DigiNotar off at the knees, apparently because it was slow to warn that hackers had broken into its network and issued rogue SSL security certificates. Further, a security researcher released information that hackers could use to leverage Google’s massive bandwidth and launch large-scale DDoS attacks.