Victims? More like SCAPEGOATS The NSA quietly commandeered a botnet targeting US Defence agencies to attack other victims including Chinese and Vietnamese dissidents, Snowden documents reveal.…
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Nice SECURITY, ‘Lizard Squad’. Your DDoS-for-hire service LEAKS
You just exposed your users to world+dog, buddy A DDoS-for-hire service purportedly set up by the Lizard Squad hacking crew exposes registered users’ login credentials.…
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Nice SECURITY, ‘Lizard Squad’. Your DDoS-for-hire service LEAKS
Holy cow! Fasthosts outage blamed on DDoS hack attack AND Windows 2003 vuln
Monday, bloody Monday Fasthosts’ five-hour collapse today has been blamed on a Distributed Denial of Service attack and a security flaw spotted on its Windows 2003 shared web server kit.…
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Holy cow! Fasthosts outage blamed on DDoS hack attack AND Windows 2003 vuln
Dormant IP addresses RIPE for hijacking
‘That’s not us spamming, honest’ cries hosting firm Spammers are using loop holes in the internet routing registry to commandeer address space and pump out junk mail, and potentially launch denial of service attacks and steal traffic.…
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Dormant IP addresses RIPE for hijacking
Emoticons blast three security holes in Pidgin :-(
Dump docs on users’ disks using only ASCII art (°O°) Cisco researchers have reported a trio of vulnerabilities in popular instant messaging client Pidgin that allow for denial of service by way of emoticon abuse and remote arbitrary file creation.…
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Emoticons blast three security holes in Pidgin 🙁
Shellshock over SMTP attacks mean you can now ignore your email
‘But boss, the Internet Storm Centre says it’s dangerous for me to reply to you’ Yet another round of Shellshock attacks is emerging, according to the SANS Internet Storm Center – this time, botnets are tapping hosts over SMTP.…
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Shellshock over SMTP attacks mean you can now ignore your email
133 DDoS attacks over 100Gbps so far in 2014
Arbor Networks released global DDoS attack data for Q3 2014 showing a remarkable increase in Simple Service Discovery Protocol (SSDP) reflection attacks. Arbor monitored very few attacks using SS…
Monster banking Trojan botnet claims 500,000 victims
This ain’t your father’s ZeuS Security researchers have uncovered the infrastructure behind one of largest and most voracious banking Trojan networks uncovered to date.…
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Monster banking Trojan botnet claims 500,000 victims
Apple updates XProtect to kill iWorm botnet threat
Apple has released an update for its XProtect anti-malware system which makes it detect three different version of the iWorm OS backdoor malware discovered last week by AV specialists from Dr. Web. …
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Apple updates XProtect to kill iWorm botnet threat
Will we ever can the spam monster?
An unending battle against email-borne nasties and botnets Spam may be the best known security threat in the world. Anyone with email or a Facebook account has experienced it, despite providers’ best efforts to block it from their inboxes.…
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Will we ever can the spam monster?