Nerd News: Brian Krebs SWATting & DDoS

http://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/03/the-world-has-no-room-for-cowards/

http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/03/security-reporter-tells-ars-about-hacked-911-call-that-sent-swat-team-to-his-house/

Brian Krebs, from Krebs on Security, seems to be targeted by some criminal types.

Links above provide story.

Security & Hacking "Study Group: Game Theory in Internet Security "

http://bristolcrypto.blogspot.com/2012/10/study-group-game-theory-in-internet.html

Note, this is high level article, a bit beyond my current or complete understanding.

I consider the Bristol Cryptography blog to be professional and/or academic level Crypto and Computer security source of information.

It is an University of Bristol Blog after all ^_^

But it discusses Game Theory and DoS & DDoS attacks.

Security & Hacking: "Security Flaw in Dirt Jumper Family of DDoS Toolkits Exposes Attacker’s Own Database"

Report from Prolexic, a "distributed denial of service (DDoS) mitigation service provider", Security Flaw in Dirt Jumper Family of DDoS Toolkits Exposes Attacker’s Own Database, is linked from Ars "White hats publish DDoS hijacking manual, turn tables on attackers" they (Ars) cover the story in more depth than normal.




Links of Interest:

• Twitter @Prolexic or https://twitter.com/prolexic
• Dirt Jumper DDoS Toolkit Vulnerability Disclosure Report http://www.prolexic.com/company/news-events/news-events-pr-dirt-jumper-vulnerability-and-pandora-ddos-threat.html 
• "Open source penetration testing tool" http://sqlmap.org/
• My Blog posts on Hacking, Pen Testing, or Security those labels and others can be found at bottom left of this post, selected Labels can also be found in Label cloud at left side of Blog, otherwise best way to find something on my blog is via Google, just search for "Cliff's Esport Corner" + "Query Term" you don't need the plus symbol