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Week in review: Linux systems ensnared in DDoS botnet and Home Depot breach

Here's an overview of some of last week's most interesting news, podcasts, and articles: IT security is a matter of accountability The CEO has always had responsibility for the overall growth an…

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Week in review: Linux systems ensnared in DDoS botnet and Home Depot breach

Code hosting Code Spaces destroyed by extortion hack attack

Cloud code hosting service Code Spaces is forced to shut down, as a DDoS attack coupled with an unsuccessful extortion attempt was followed by the attacker deleting most of its code repositories and b…

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Code hosting Code Spaces destroyed by extortion hack attack

International action against Gameover Zeus botnet and CyptoLocker ransomware

On Friday, 30 May 2014, law enforcement agencies from across the world, supported by the European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) at Europol, joined forces in a coordinated action led by the FBI which ensured…

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International action against Gameover Zeus botnet and CyptoLocker ransomware

Researcher ropes poorly protected devices into botnet to map the Internet

A fascinating but technically illegal experiment conducted by an anonymous researcher has witnessed over 420,000 Internet-connected devices being roped into a botnet that functioned as a distributed p…

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Researcher ropes poorly protected devices into botnet to map the Internet

Pushdo botnet’s smokescreen traffic hits legitimate websites

Aargh, cap’n, the server be like to founder Cybercrooks behind the resilient Pushdo botnet are bombarding legitimate small websites with bogus traffic in order to camouflage requests to the zombie network’s command and control servers.…

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Pushdo botnet’s smokescreen traffic hits legitimate websites

Mobile pickpocketing and botnets will rise

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