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Gang behind ‘1.2 billion’ megahack ransack is pwning our customers – hosting firm

CyberVor, huh, yeah. What is it good for? Anecdotal evidence is emerging that the Russian botnet raiders behind the “biggest-ever” password theft have begun attacks against web services using stolen login credentials.…

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Gang behind ‘1.2 billion’ megahack ransack is pwning our customers – hosting firm

Feedly DDoSed by ransom-threat crims: ‘We refused to give in’

RSS bods stand up to cyber creeps News aggregator Feedly has been knocked offline by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack after refusing to pay criminals to stop the attack.…

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Feedly DDoSed by ransom-threat crims: ‘We refused to give in’

Tens of thousands of ‘Watch Dogs’ pirates gamers ENSLAVED by Bitcoin botmaster

Watch Dogs fans targeted for access to their juicy GPUs Tens of thousands of pirate gamers have been enslaved in a Bitcoin botnet after downloading a cracked copy of popular game Watch Dogs .…

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Linux distros get patching on terminal bug

Pseudo-terminal buffer bug from 2009 discovered Linux admins need to get busy patching, as a newly discovered bug has emerged in the kernel’s tty handling that can let local users create memory corruption leading to denial of service, unauthorised modification of data, and disclosure of information.…

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Boffins pen ‘Guide to better spamming’

Small, widely-dispersed botnets ought to do the trick Ignoring the manual and keeping your ‘bot nimble are some of the tips a quartet of security researchers have recommended to help spam reach inboxes more effectively.…

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Boffins pen ‘Guide to better spamming’

Innocent surfers drafted into ZOMBIE ARMY by sneaky XSS vuln

Javascript snafu turned 22,000 bods into unwitting DDoSers Visitors to a video distribution website were unwittingly turned into participants in a hacker’s DDoS battle against a third-party site earlier this month.…

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MUM’s WordPress recipe blog USED AS ZOMBIE in DDoS attacks

Well, it’s statistically reasonably likely. Just update to 3.8.1, OK? Tens of thousands of vulnerable WordPress sites have been co-opted into a server-based botnet being used to run DDoS attacks.…

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MUM’s WordPress recipe blog USED AS ZOMBIE in DDoS attacks

Cisco patches enterprise wireless vulns

Everything from DoS to device access Cisco has issued patches and mitigation instructions for 16 of its wireless products, to take care of a number of denial of service vulnerabilities and one unauthorised access vulnerability.…

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Miscreant menaces Meetup, minuscule money mania mashed

$300 or the trendy website gets it … and the website got it Meetup.com has gone public with one of the most paltry ransom demands The Register has seen – but rather than pay up to end a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, the klatch organizer instead put up with its site being repeatedly hosed offline, we’re told.…

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