Spamhaus Targeted in "Largest DDoS Attack Ever"

March 27 & 28, 2013Since the middle of March, anti-spam organization Spamhaus has found its systems under what is being called the largest ever distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. Most DDoS attacks generate traffic volumes of between four Gbps and 10 Gbps. At its peak, the attack on Spamhaus generated traffic at 300 Gbps. The attack is believed to have slowed Internet traffic in Europe. The hackers took advantage of misconfigured Domain Name System (DNS) servers to amplify the power of the attack. Read more at:http://isc....

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Hacker finds way to run desktop applications on Windows RT

Source: Hacker finds way to run desktop applications on Windows RT By Lucian Constantin January 8, 2013 A hacker claims to have found a method of bypassing the code integrity mechanism in Windows RT, therefore allowing for desktop-style programs to be installed on the platform. The hacker, who uses the online moniker "clrokr", documented the bypass method in a blog post on Sunday. Windows RT is a special version of Microsoft Windows designed for lightweight PCs and tablets that are based on the ARM architecture, including Microsoft's Surface...

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