Cyveillance

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Type: Company

Name: Cyveillance

First reported May 06 2013 - Updated May 06 2013 - 1 reports

Experts: DDoS attack threat for May 7

– The hacktivist group Anonymous has been warning banking and government websites of its plan for a distributed-denial-of-service attack on May 7 – a threat security experts are taking seriously.Experts say American websites – especially government and ... [Published NAFCU - May 06 2013]

Entities: DDoS Distributed Denial-of-Service Attack, Cyveillance, Threat

First reported May 01 2013 - Updated May 01 2013 - 1 reports

DDoS attacks on U.S. institutions to continue

– The FBI says there have been more than 200 distributed-denial-of-service attacks on 46 U.S. banking institutions as of April 10 using high-bandwidth servers having vulnerable content management systems, according to a CUInfoSecurity.com report Tuesday, ... [Published NAFCU - May 01 2013]

Entities: DDoS Distributed Denial-of-Service Attack, Hacktivist, Botnet

First reported Apr 16 2013 - Updated Apr 16 2013 - 1 reports

50.) Cyveillance Intelligence Center Scans Internet for Risks - Feb 2006

It is no secret that use of the Internet leaves users open to a variety of security threats. Intelligence Center 3.0 from Cyveillance, Arlington, Va., provides a closed-loop, cross-enterprise way for organizations to identify and eliminate threats occurring ... [Published Software Magazine - Apr 16 2013]

Entities: Cyveillance, Intelligence, Threat, Internet Fraud

First reported Jan 07 2013 - Updated Jan 07 2013 - 1 reports

Cyveillance

DHS: impact of Secret Service Cyveillance system on individual privacy is limited

"Although the primary purpose of the Secret Service's Cyveillance system is not to collect personally identifiable information, it may still do so as an unintended result of public web searches, says a privacy impact assessment (. pdf) conducted by the ... [Published Team Cymru Internet Security News - Jan 07 2013]

Entities: Cyveillance, QinetiQ North America, Reston (United States)

Quotes

"Breaking into hosting facilities is a high-yield activity for phishers," said Rod Rasmussen, President & CTO of IID, and a co-author of the study. "This activity is part of a larger trend -- we also see criminals hacking into shared hosting and using those servers for other malicious activities, such as launching denial-of-service attacks, infecting the computers of the legitimate website visitors via exploit code, and creating botnets."

APWG Report: Cybercriminals Perfect Mass Attacks on Server Farms to Mount Phishing Blitzkriegs [Published Business Wire - Apr 25 2013]

"Although the primary purpose of the Secret Service's Cyveillance system is not to collect personally identifiable information, it may still do so as an unintended result of public web searches, says a privacy impact assessment (. pdf) conducted by the Homeland Security Department. As part of its Cyber Awareness Program, the Secret Service contracts the system from Reston, Va.-based Cyveillance, a subsidiary of QinetiQ North America, to search online data related to investigatory and protective intelligence information...."

DHS: impact of Secret Service Cyveillance system on individual privacy is limited [Published Team Cymru Internet Security News - Jan 07 2013]

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