Iranians used University of Michigan network in recent bank attacks

Iran Strikes Back

Bill Gertz The Washington Free Beacon 10/15/2012

Iranian hackers took over a University of Michigan computer network during a massive cyber attack on U.S. financial systems last week that continued following comments on the strike by Defense Secretary Leon Panetta.

According to reports by a leading Internet security-monitoring firm, the cyber attacks […]

Every GoDaddy-registered site temporarily knocked offline

FoxNews.com 9/10/2012

A malicious flood of network traffic temporarily knocked Internet registrar GoDaddy’s servers offline Monday — taking with it the site, its email, and thousands, potentially millions of websites registered through one of the Internet’s most popular services.

A Twitter user quickly claimed credit for the incident. Anup Ghosh, chief scientist with security company […]

Twitter users are being tricked into joining Anonymous cyber attacks on U.S. government – and could be jailed

Links turn any PC into an unwitting part of attack Part of ‘hacktivist’ group Anonymous’s cyber attacks Retaliation for U.S. strike at file-sharing site

Links being forwarded via Twitter actually make people's PCs part of Anonymous's 'denial of service' attacks against U.S. government sites and anti-piracy organisations

The Daily Mail [UK] 20th […]

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