Users unwittingly add to chronic traffic congestion GitHub’s servers are being hammered by web traffic from an army of unwitting cyber-foot-soldiers.…
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GitHub jammed by injected JavaScript, servers whacked by DDoS
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ACHTUNG! Scary Linux backdoor turns your box into a DDoS platform
Xnote.1 – the Swiss Army knife of malware Cybercrooks have cooked up a Linux backdoor boasting multiple malicious functions.…
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ACHTUNG! Scary Linux backdoor turns your box into a DDoS platform
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 🙁
Code hosting Code Spaces destroyed by extortion hack attack
Cloud code hosting service Code Spaces is forced to shut down, as a DDoS attack coupled with an unsuccessful extortion attempt was followed by the attacker deleting most of its code repositories and b…
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Code hosting Code Spaces destroyed by extortion hack attack
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’