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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Microsoft: We’ve taken down the botnets. Europol: Would Sir like a kill switch, too?
Turns out the whole thing was pointless anyway Municipal websites in Fort Lauderdale, Florida suffered a distributed denial of service attack on Monday after Anonymous promised to disrupt the city’s activities following the passing of local laws outlawing the feeding of homeless people.…
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Fort Lauderdale websites DDoSed after Anonymous threats over feeding ban
NotCompatible A newly discovered variant of NotCompatible is establishing what has been called the most advanced mobile botnet yet created.…
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‘Most advanced mobile botnet EVER’ is coming for your OFFICE Androids
Beware traffic from hacked Vietnam, India and Indonesia fondleslabs Vietnam, India and Indonesia will be the distributed denial of service volcanoes of next year due to the profieration of pwned mobiles, according to DDoS security bod Shawn Marck.…
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Asian mobiles the DDOS threat of 2015, security mob says
Monday, bloody Monday Fasthosts’ five-hour collapse today has been blamed on a Distributed Denial of Service attack and a security flaw spotted on its Windows 2003 shared web server kit.…
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Holy cow! Fasthosts outage blamed on DDoS hack attack AND Windows 2003 vuln
‘That’s not us spamming, honest’ cries hosting firm Spammers are using loop holes in the internet routing registry to commandeer address space and pump out junk mail, and potentially launch denial of service attacks and steal traffic.…
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Dormant IP addresses RIPE for hijacking
Now we’re not saying it was the Chinese government, but… Hacking attacks against organisations promoting democracy in Hong Kong were run using the same infrastructure previously linked to Chinese cyber-espionage attacks, according to new research from security firm FireEye.…
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Pro-democracy Hong Kong sites DDoS’d with Chinese cyber-toolkit
Updates XProtect Apple has updated its XProtect anti-malware system to squash several variants of the iWorm before the malware causes any further damage.…
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Apple tries to kill iWorm: Zombie botnet feasting on Mac brains
17,000 Macs compromised by malicious miscreants A zombie network that feasts on the computer brains of infected Macs has press-ganged 17,000 compromised machines into its ranks, Russian anti-virus firm Dr Web warns.…
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MAC BOTNET uses REDDIT comments for directions
First time the cache network has seen drop in use of 32-bit-wide IP addresses Broadband and IPv6 are hot – and distributed denial-of-service attacks and IPv4 are not. Well, that’s according to Akamai.…
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PEAK IPV4? Global IPv6 traffic is growing, DDoS dying, says Akamai