A screenshot from the blog of Plenty of Fish CEO Markus Frind (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — A very strange story emerging over the last few days has one of the Internet’s largest dating sites racing to patch vulnerabilities following an attack, while the alleged perpetrator of the hack attempts to refute claims of extortion. According to reports released this week, Plenty of Fish, one of the largest dating sites on the web, was hacked last week, as revealed by a blog post made by the site’s creator and CEO, Markus Frind. A Globe and Mail report says Frind claims the attack was made by Argentinian hacker Chris Russo, who claimed responsibility for the attack on bit torrent tracking site The Pirate Bay last year.

A real-time performance graph of 4chan following DDoS attacks, as posted on Netcraft (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Community site 4chan ( www.4chan.org ) suffered another distributed denial of service attack Monday, according to a report by Web analytics firm Netcraft . Many of the individuals in pro-WikiLeaks hackers group Anonymous are also members of 4chan’s boards. Despite this, there has been no evidence that the current attack is connected to any of the previous DDoS attacks launched by Anonymous

A real-time performance graph of 4chan following DDoS attacks, as posted on Netcraft (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Community site 4chan ( www.4chan.org ) suffered another distributed denial of service attack Monday, according to a report by Web analytics firm Netcraft . Many of the individuals in pro-WikiLeaks hackers group Anonymous are also members of 4chan’s boards. Despite this, there has been no evidence that the current attack is connected to any of the previous DDoS attacks launched by Anonymous

An image from the CableGate site, showing some of the distribution of data among the documents (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Always-controversial whistleblower website WikiLeaks was reportedly hit with a denial-of-service attack Sunday night, as it prepared for another large-scale release of classified US government documents. The major news from WikiLeaks on Monday, of course, lay in the content of the documents being released, as the site published thousands of classified US State Department documents, communications with embassies around the world.

The inclination to “shoot the messenger” bearing bad news is a well-known sentiment. In the online media world, news Web sites really are getting shot at — with massive denial-of-service attacks aimed at taking them offline. ‘Political’ cyberattacks hit half of large companies One large Web-hosting company in France is striving to protect the Web sites of its European media customers, which has meant fending off distributed denial-of-service attacks (DDoS) that have brought sites crashing down in the past

In Wake Of Attacks, Enterprises Look To Plug Browser Security Hole For five hours last week, Twitter users were inundated with an avalanche of odd tweets. The messages — actually snippets of JavaScript — would execute when a browser user moused over the text. While the lion’s share of the tweets were simple pranks, the technique exploited a flaw in Twitter’s website that could have allowed malcontents to possibly attack the end user’s system.

According to the information released by Websense (a web and e-mail security solutions’ providing firm), a mass injection attack targeting web hosting networks has become a serious concern. Users visiting these hacked websites will be redirected to rouge anti-virus (AV) websites

A widespread web attack that hit domains parked at web hosting provider Network Solutions affected far fewer domains than previously estimated, according to the company’s preliminary analysis of the attack.

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New Crypto-Cracking Tool To Target Databases Researchers last week introduced a new penetration-testing tool that makes it possible to capture poorly encrypted Web session data — such as cookies and HTML parameters. Now they say they’re looking into how similar attacks against Web applications can be used to advance attacks against Web-facing databases with sloppy encryption-key deployment. Demonstrated this spring at Black Hat Europe and officially released last week, the Padding Oracle Exploit Tool (Poet) takes advantage of and automates a side-channel attack called a Padding Oracle Attack, which was introduced to the cryptographic community in 2002.