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  • Lulzsec: the rise and fall of a hacking collective

    The curtain has fallen on the 50 day performance by hacker group LulzSec. Its campaign of mayhem and destruction, peppered with witty commentary captivated the world. In an alternate universe where Lulzcats reign and anti-security is the norm, it might have even earned a spot on its first target, The X-Factor. But on this earth its members may still be captured by its later targets: the CIA, US law enforcement and the FBI.

    12 Jul | View galleries

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  • The PopVote attack aftermath

    As the voting period draws an end on PopVote -- the website hosting Hong Kong's unofficial online referendum on political reform--Computerworld Hong Kong talked with its cloud provider CloudFlare and other security vendors to find out the lesson learned from dealing with massive DDoS attacks.

    Sheila Lam and Carol Ko | 09 Jul | Read more

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  • Automating Cloud Security to Mitigate Risk | SANS Whitepaper

    As cloud computing services evolve, the cloud opens up entirely new ways for potential attacks. In February 2017, Tavis Ormandy of the Google Project Zero team exposed major memory leakage in Cloudflare’s Content Delivery Network (CDN) web caching services. It exposed all sorts of sensitive data, including passwords, authentication tokens and cookies. Although this is just one example of a cloud-oriented service with a major security issue (which, for the record, the company responded to immediately and remediated quickly), it demonstrates that all of us may have more exposure points than we realise.