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Scotland Yard Tightens the Pincers on Anonymous
September 9, 2011 No CommentsSOURCE: TechNews World
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 (Nasdaq: GOOG), Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) 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 distributed denial of service (DDoS) and SQL injection attacks.
