Most common online attack vectors
Akamai has released its Q4 2016 State of the Internet Security report, which shows that three vectors – SQL Injection (SQLi), Local File Inclusion (LFI), and Cross-site Scripting (XSS) – accounted for 95% of all web application attacks.
Two prison officers have been injured in an attack at a British maximum security jail, officials said Tuesday, with media reports claiming the assailants were Muslim inmates inspired by the brutal murder of a soldier.
The prison officers' union told AFP one of the guards had been held hostage...
An attempted attack on ANC Western Cape chairman Marius Fransman will be investigated, the party said on Tuesday.
The African National Congress would "act swiftly and decisively" against those responsible, provincial spokesman Phillip Dexter said in a statement.
On Friday, the Cape Times...
Police say former adult film star Jenna Jameson has been arrested after a report that she attacked someone at a California home.
Newport Beach police Lt. Evan Sailor says the alleged victim put Jameson under citizen's arrest until police arrived Saturday night.
The 38-year-old Jameson...
CO.ZA whois service suffers DDoS attack
Attempts to datamine the CO.ZA web Whois service causes an inadvertent DDoS attack which influences service availability
WikiLeaks' Swedish servers appear to be under attack
WikiLeaks' Swedish Web hosting company says its servers have become unresponsive and are probably under attack.
Twitter vulnerability exploited
A vulnerability in Twitter is being widely exploited on thousands of accounts
UPDATE: Twitter seems to have patched the problem.
I have been getting e-mails all day from a friend of mine on Hotmail in the USA. She works for a mission aid organisation, not sure if it has any links to China.
Anyway it looks like someone in China has hacked her account and harvested her e-mail contacts.
The e-mails I am getting...