Defeating a DDoS swarm Webinar Any organization can lose service, revenue, and reputation as a result. If you are particularly unlucky, a DDoS attack can defenestrate your network defences. You may find yourself facing an cyber criminal who wants to take your business for everything it’s got – not an attractive prospect in anybody’s book.…
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One moron down, two to go The script kiddie at the center of the Satori botnet case has pleaded guilty.…
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Newb admits he ran Satori botnet that turned thousands of hacked devices into a 100Gbps+ DDoS-for-hire cannon
IoT botnets move into the home theater market in search of low-hanging fruit Set-top tuner boxes have become the infection vector in the spread of Internet of Things malware.…
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Time to spin the wheel of pwnage! This week, malware can infect your…. Android set-top box!
It’s all lulz until someone goes to prison Austin Thompson, aka DerpTrolling, who came to prominence in 2013 by launching Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks against major video game companies, has been sentenced to 27 months in prison by a federal court .…
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Get rekt: Two years in clink for game-busting DDoS brat DerpTrolling
Firm explains but security folk not appy with clarifications Weird things are afoot with NordVPN’s app and the traffic it generates – Reg readers have spotted it contacting strange domains in the same way compromised machines talk to botnets’ command-and-control servers.…
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There’s NordVPN odd about this, right? Infosec types concerned over strange app traffic
Chinese kit slinger was told of UPnP flaw in 2013, didn’t do too much about it Exclusive Huawei bungled its response to warnings from an ISP’s code review team about a security vulnerability common across its home routers – patching only a subset of the devices rather than all of its products that used the flawed firmware.…
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Huawei bungled router security, leaving kit open to botnets, despite alert from ISP years prior
ISP alerted biz to UPnP flaw in 2013. Years later, same flaw kept cropping up Exclusive Huawei bungled its response to warnings from an ISP’s code review team about a security vulnerability common across its home routers – patching only two models rather than all of its products that used the same flawed firmware.…
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Huawei’s half-arsed router patching left kit open to botnets: Chinese giant was warned years ago – then bungled it
Fed bust of massive attack network caused traffic loads to plummet in Q4 The FBI’s takedown of a group of prolific DDoS-for-hire websites has single-handedly helped to drop attack levels globally.…
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Silence of the WANs: FBI DDoS-for-hire greaseball takedowns slash web flood attacks ‘by 11%’
Bloke binned at Blackfriars for blasting botnet to bork broadband A Surrey man has been jailed for 32 months after admitting to launching distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against an African telco.…
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Brit hacker hired by Liberian telco to nobble rival now behind bars
Healthcare networks pummeled amid drama over teen girl’s custody Five months after he was found guilty of orchestrating a distributed denial-of-service attack against US healthcare providers, the self-styled Anonymous hacker Martin Gottesfeld has been sentenced to 121 months in prison.…
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No plain sailing for Anon hacktivist picked up by Disney cruise ship: 10 years in the cooler for hospital DDoS caper