Spamhaus under MASSIVE DDoS attack

The biggest DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack in the history of the internet was carried out last week. The victim was Spamhaus anti-spam organisation. According to Akamai,  Spamhaus was facing increasing traffic about a week ago, but have surged in the last few days, reaching a never previously experienced level of some 300 gigabits per second at peak hours, says Akamai. <more>

Still Lock Screen Bypass possible even after fix

Last week, Apple just released a fix for lock screen bypass that was discovered in mid-February. Unfortunately, it seems another trick that allows similar access to the device has already been discovered. According to The Next Web, this vulnerability is present in iOS 6.1.3. This version was just released earlier this week and contained a number of bug fixes along with a fix for the lock screen bypass. The method for bypassing the lock screen in that instance was pretty complicated. This time, it's much, much easier.

Microsoft, Twitter, LinkedIn and Yahoo users @ RISK

A vulnerability related to account hijacking has been identified by a security researcher Rishi Narang which puts Microsoft, Twitter, LinkedIn and Yahoo users at risk. While Google and Facebook customers are not impacted by the flaw. According to the expert, the vulnerability, which can be leveraged to launch session fixation attacks, is caused by an issue with the management of cookies and sessions.<more>