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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Innocent surfers drafted into ZOMBIE ARMY by sneaky XSS vuln
Here's an overview of some of last week's most interesting news, reviews and articles: Flaws in Android update mechanism could turn apps into malware A group of researchers from Indiana Universi…
Reports claim revenge attack after digi-currency restrictions Angry Bitcoin users are suspected of DDoS-ing the website of China’s central bank following tough new restrictions it levied this week which appear to have forced the world’s biggest Bitcoin exchange into meltdown.…
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China’s central bank hit by DDoS after Bitcoin blitz
Spook agency denies DDOS, blames sysadmins The USA’s National Security Agency (NSA), lately the source of near-endless controversy for spying on just about the entire internet, has itself hit trouble online after its website went down.…
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NSA.gov goes down after ‘error during scheduled update’
El Reg talks to anti-DDos bods – who UNMASK the target… Exclusive Web security firm Incapsula helped a Chinese Bitcoin trader to weather a ferocious denial-of-service attack last month when the volume of inbound traffic to the site peaked at 100Gbps.…
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How mystery DDoSers tried to take down Bitcoin exchange with 100Gbps crapflood
Middle Kingdom pledges immediate action The China Internet Network Information Center (CINIC) has reported that on Sunday it suffered the largest ever DDoS attack it has ever experienced against the .cn domain, an assault that took ten hours to knock down.…
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Chinese authorities says massive DDoS attack took down .cn domain
C-TIP gives ISPs near-realtime access to MARS data Microsoft is plugging its security intelligence systems into Azure so that service providers and local authorities can get near-realtime information on botnets and malware detected by Redmond.…
Less than a month since Microsoft's revelation that it had disrupted the functioning of the Nitol botnet by effecting a takedown of a domain (3322.org) which was also hosting over 500 different strain…
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Microsoft settles Nitol botnet lawsuit
Prolexic Technologies warned of an escalating threat from unusually large and highly sophisticated DDoS attacks. The DDoS attacks have been launched in the last week using the so-called itsoknopr…
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DDoS attacks reach new level of sophistication
Mobile threats are on the rise — Lookout estimates that mobile threats successfully stole more than one million dollars from Android users in 2011. In 2012, Lookout predicts that the criminal business…
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Mobile pickpocketing and botnets will rise