As we close out 2012, there is no doubt that this year will go down as epic in the history books of information security professionals. Looking back on the year it’s not hard to find a laundry list of security programs that have been overrun by nefarious perpetrators or to see how dramatically different the risk landscape is today than just a year ago. Taking stock of it all, the following are some of the most notable attacks:
Jan - Feb 2012 – Group Anonymous attacks various Israeli sites leaving, among others, the Israeli Stock exchange in operational duress for a moment
March 2012 – Operation Global Blackout – Group Anonymous threatens to take out the internet by attacking the DNS infrastructure of the world
July – Aug 2012 – Admin.HLP Trojan wreaks havoc in wild
Aug 2012 – AT&T suffers a near day long outage originating from an attack on their DNS infrastructure
Sept – Oct 2012 – Operation Ababil launched against US banking and financial institutions. The vast majority of US banks suffer various degrees of outages, attacks leverage new SSL tool
Nov – Dec 2012 – OpIsrael & OpZionism launched against various Israeli interests as a result of ongoing political struggles.
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