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Mounties nab Canadian woman, 27, in webcam hack shenanigans bust

Nefarious pervert hacks parlour cameras for heavy petting pwnage The Royal Canadian Mounted Police has nabbed a Canadian woman believed to have originated a botnet which she used to recreationally terrorise victims.…

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Mounties nab Canadian woman, 27, in webcam hack shenanigans bust

DDoSsers use reflection amplification to crank up the volume to 100Gbps+

Ne’er-do-wells: ‘Hey.’ Dumb servers: ‘WHAT?’ Targets: ‘AAARGH’ DDoS attacks have grown in volume yet again with 25 attacks larger than 100Gbps globally in Q1 2015, according to the latest stats from DDoS mitigation firm Arbor Networks.…

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DDoSsers use reflection amplification to crank up the volume to 100Gbps+

iOS, OS X apps sent into infinite dizzy DoS by this one weird kernel bug

Apple patches OOB boob to stop API noobs being duped Kenton Varda has found a ‘weird’ kernel bug used in Apple gear that could result in trivial denial of service by remote attackers.…

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iOS, OS X apps sent into infinite dizzy DoS by this one weird kernel bug

Day FOUR of the GitHub web assault: Activists point fingers at ‘China’s global censorship’

Code repository warns of ‘evolving’ attacks With the GitHub distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack nearing its fifth day of bombardment, the code-sharing upstart said it is holding up well under fire.…

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Day FOUR of the GitHub web assault: Activists point fingers at ‘China’s global censorship’

The injected JavaScript used to smash anti-Great Firewall of China GitHub projects offline

Servers up and down during 24-hour-long DDoS GitHub’s servers are being hammered by web traffic from an army of unwitting cyber-foot-soldiers.…

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The injected JavaScript used to smash anti-Great Firewall of China GitHub projects offline

Red or alive, you’re coming with me: Feds offer $3m reward for ‘CryptoLocker baron’

Evgeniy Bogachev accused of GameOver ZeuS botnet crimes The US State Department and the FBI, have stumped up $3m in reward money for the arrest of Evgeniy Mikhailovich Bogachev, the 30-year-old Russian man accused of stealing over $100m with his malware.…

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Red or alive, you’re coming with me: Feds offer $3m reward for ‘CryptoLocker baron’

Google unleashes tame botnet to hunt XSS in cloudy code

Security scanner spawns hordes of attackers to probe you in all sorts of ways … Google has unleashed its own application security scanner, potentially rescuing admins from ‘fiddly’ existing offerings.…

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Google unleashes tame botnet to hunt XSS in cloudy code