An interesting happening this week, some ISP’s have been jacking the DNS entries for certain IRC networks to crack down on zombie/bot infections.
Is it ethical? Should they be doing this to their users?
I first got wind of this from a post on Full Disclosure mailing list from an IRC network administrator.
You can read that e-mail [...]

Well at least it shows the Internet is not very susceptible to such attacks due to its distributed nature, even if the root nameservers are down, the DNS system still functions.
This was a pretty heavy attack though and the most significant in the past 5 years or so, someone testing their ego I guess.
I CAN [...]

Towards the end of last year Cafepress.com came under heavy DDoS attack (Distributed Denial of Service) which took it down for some time.
The problem with DDoS attacks is there’s not much you can do to prevent it, if that guy has enough zombies resulting in enough bandwidth, you are going down.
DDoS attacks have gotten pretty [...]

Types of activities that will become illegal under the proposed laws include making or supplying “hacking tools”- computer programmes or code that can help crack passwords or bypass security systems - and will be punishable by up to two years in prison.
Isn’t this legitimate action for any security enthusiast, hobbiest or professional involved in penetration [...]