
LulzSec described that attack as a simple packet flood, which overwhelms a server with volume.

The most recent attack, against does not appear to be particularly sophisticated. People haven’t been doing the easy things to stop the attacks.” “A lot of this stuff we should be able to stop,” agreed Kevin Haley, a director of Symantec Security Response.

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“We haven’t been doing a good enough job of educating people how to protect against these things.” Giesa blamed the cybersecurity industry as much as the users for the lack of preparedness. With a click, employees invite a vampire into the network RSA confirms its tokens used in Lockheed hack “They all have one common denominator,” said Eric Giesa, vice president of product management for F5 Networks.

Some of the attacks were targeted, using data stolen earlier this year from EMC’s RSA security division, some involved webpage defacements and others were simple denial-of-service attacks. Other recent victims of a variety of attacks include defense contractors Lockheed Martin and L-3 Communications, the website of the Atlanta InfraGard chapter, the International Monetary Fund and the U.S. The outage was reported June 15 and the LulzSec hacker group claimed credit. The CIA has become a member of a less-than-exclusive club of high-profile targets hit by online attacks, falling victim to a denial-of-service attack that temporarily took down its website.
