26 Nov. - 4 Dec. 2011 - Cavalieri Hotel, Rome, Italy  

If you are in the control systems security field you won’t want to miss the SANS Institute European SCADA & Process Control System Security Summit. You’ll learn what can be done to protect SCADA and other control systems as well as how to move beyond identifying the problem to implementing defensive strategies.

The Summit will focus on actionable information – techniques and data you can put to work immediately.

Program managers, control system engineers, IT security professionals, government policy makers, critical infrastructure protection specialists and thought leaders in the industry will provide a venue for exploration and discussion of the...

Antifurto & Security - Dicembre 2011 - Come proteggere la "spina dorsale" delle reti

Vodafone, Telegraph, Acer, National Geographic, Ups, Betfair and The Register (famous British technology news and opinion website) got hacked by Turkguvenligi. Turkguvenligi is also know with the name "TG Hacker'.

What is peculiar in these attacks (started last Sunday evening at 10pm) consists in that they apparently have been carried out by means of Domain Name System (DNS) Hijacking.

In particular, at the moment it seems that the attacker(s) hacked into the DNS control panel of Net­Names, a Domain Name Management Services provider, by means of an SQL injec­tion attack, and consequently mod­ified the DNS con­fig­u­ra­tion of some sites, in order to use their own controlled name servers (ns1​.yumur​tak​abugu​.com and ns2​.yumur​tak​abugu​.com) redirecting those web­sites to a defaced page.

The defaced web sites weren't directly attacked or corrupted: in fact access via the original IP address would consist in...