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HSBC online services still offline following ‘attack’ on bank

Oh no – not again! Updated   HSBC customers were once again locked out of online banking this morning, following an apparent DDoS attack on the bank.…

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Israeli academics claim they can predict botnet attacks

Isolated attacks can add up to concerted malbot action , say boffins Ben Gurion University researchers have developed a tool capable of predicting future botnet attacks while also distinguishing between human and automated campaigns.…

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Irish government websites hit by widening DDoS attacks

First they came for the forums. Then the lottery. Now… A number of Irish government-related and public sector websites were knocked offline by an apparent DDoS attack on Friday morning.…

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Microsoft asks: We’ve taken down botnets for you. How about a kill switch?

It’s like pulling a smoking car off the road… Oh, hang on Last December, Microsoft intercepted traffic on users’ PCs and helped break up a botnet. And nobody complained. So the company very tentatively asked at a session on ethics and policy in Brussels this week whether it should do more.…

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Microsoft: We’ve taken down the botnets. Europol: Would Sir like a kill switch, too?

It’s like pulling a smoking car off the road … hang on Last December, Microsoft intercepted traffic on users’ PCs and helped break up a botnet. And nobody complained. So the company very tentatively asked at a session on ethics and policy in Brussels this week whether it should do more.…

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Xen Project blunder blows own embargo with premature bug report

Malicious guest could eat your virtual rigs from the inside The Xen Project has reported a new bug, XSA-169 , that means “A malicious guest could cause repeated logging to the hypervisor console, leading to a Denial of Service attack.”…

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Security sweep firm links botnet infestation and file sharing

Public sector apparently suffers most from idle P2Pers Updated   There’s high degree of correlation between organisations with P2P activity and system compromises via malware infections, according to a new study by BitSight Technologies.…

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