Hospitals advised to use Bing instead Exclusive Google is blocking access to the entire NHS network, mistaking the amount of traffic it is currently receiving as a cyber attack.…
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Google mistakes the entire NHS for massive cyber-attacking botnet
Botnets’ power level over 9,000 thanks to gaping vulnerabilities IoT botnets have transformed the threat landscape, resulting in a big increase in the size of DDoS attacks from 500Gbps in 2015 up to 800Gbps last year.…
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DDoSing has evolved in the vacuum left by IoT’s total absence of security
Toy-makers, please quit this rubbish, you’re NO GOOD at security Here’s your future botnet, world: connected kids toys that will Rickroll their owners while hosing big servers and guessing the nuclear codes.…
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Furby Rickroll demo: what fresh hell is this?
But it is keeping shtum A DDoS attack was reportedly behind online outages at Lloyds Bank a fortnight ago.…
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Lloyds Bank outage: DDoS is prime suspect
Necrus botnet wakes up and starts fresh malware-cano Cisco is warning of possible return of a massive ransomware spam campaign after researchers noticed traces of traffic from the hitherto dormant Necrus botnet.…
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Unbreakable Locky ransomware is on the march again
Carbanak: It’s not just a caramel-flavoured choc-trocity. It’s also malware The Carbanak cyber criminal gang is abusing Google’s infrastructure as a conduit for botnet control.…
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Whitehouse.gov down? A software engineer is calling on netizens opposed to Donald Trump to visit the Whitehouse.gov site and overload it with traffic tomorrow.…
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Trump inauguration DDoS protest is ‘illegal’, warn securobods
Phishing, denial of service, and remote exploitation part of hacking banquet Hackers of unknown origin cut power supplies in Ukraine for a second time in 12 months as part of wide-ranging attacks that hit the country in December.…
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Crims shut off Ukraine power in wide-ranging anniversary hacks