-----Original Message----- From: NIPC Watch [mailto:nipcwatch@private] Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 6:50 AM To: Cyber Threats Subject: [Cyber_threats] Daily News 10/29/02 October 28, CNET News "Blog" site back up after hack attack. An attack took out Blogger.com, leading some customers to worry about the safety of their credit card numbers. "Blogging" is essentially the process of keeping an online journal of daily observations. Blogger.com has been one of the more popular Web log sites. The site now has about 875,000 users who publish some 930,000 blogs, according to Jason Shellen, the director of business development for Blogger's hosting company, Pyra. Shellen didn't know how many of those accounts had been compromised. The hack compromised individual accounts, locking out site users from their blogs. Pyra has not yet determined when the hacker first got access to Blogger accounts, but the attack appeared to have started early Friday morning, Shellen said. Pyra took down the Blogger site at around 9 am PDT, and it was offline for about two and a half hours, he said. It was brought up at about 11:25 am. Source: http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2124555,00.html October 25, Internetnews.com FBI to IT execs: You will be a cyber-crime victim. Speaking before a crowd of IT managers, FBI Special Agent Jim Hegarty told the group "You're going to be a victim of cyber-crime; it's going to happen." Hegarty, who oversees a team of IT investigators based in Boston, outlined ways to prevent some attacks, or at least, limit the damage they cause. His remarks came at a security forum sponsored by Lighthouse Computer Services. Source: http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/1488321 _______________________________________________ Cyber_Threats mailing list Cyber_Threats@listserv http://listserv.infragard.org/mailman/listinfo/cyber_threats
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