New malware targeting Mac machines, opening backdoors on them and roping them into a botnet currently numbering around 17,000 zombies has been spotted and analyzed by malware researchers of Russian AV…
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New OS X backdoor malware roping Macs into botnet
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’
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’
Second attack this month sees hackers git GitHub San Francisco–based GitHub, the online repository popular among software developers, suffered a major service outage on Thursday morning due to what it characterizes as a “very large DDoS attack.”… Learn how to leverage change for better IT And win a top of the range HP Spectre Ultrabook courtesy of HP and The Register! Click here to enter!
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GitHub code repository rocked by ‘very large DDoS’ attack
Malware is on the rise.
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Satanbot Employs VBScript to Create Botnet