Anti-Facebook site forced to temporarily wave Buh-Bye Ello, the social network site intended to serve as something of an antidote to ad-stuffed Facebook, was hit by a suspected Distributed-Denial-of-Service attack today.…
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Ello social network hit by suspected BLOODY DDoS attack
Actual culprit appears to be silly router configurations and Euro-nasties New Zealand’s largest ISP, Spark, has spent the weekend fighting off a DDOS incorrectly assumed to have a connection with last week’s nude celebrity picture scandal.…
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Nude celeb pics wrongly blamed for DDOS at New Zealand’s largest ISP
An analysis of 400 million search engine visits to 10,000 sites done by Incapsula researchers has revealed details that might be interesting to web operators and SEO professionals. Namely, that:G…
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Fake GoogleBots are third most common DDoS attacker
RAM scrapers foisted on 60 terminals A botnet has compromised 60 point of sale (PoS) terminals by brute-force password attacks against poorly-secured connections, FireEye researchers say.…
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Brute-force bot busts shonky PoS passwords
As noose tightens, VXer pleades: ‘Stop breaking my ballz’ Facebook has taken down a Greek botnet that at its peak compromised 50,000 accounts and infected 250,000 computers to mine crypto-currencies, steal email and banking details and pump out spam.…
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Facebook scuttles 250k-strong crypto-currency botnet
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
Earlier this week, Domino’s Pizza became the latest victim of a breach and ransom demand. Recent DDoS attacks on Evernote and Feedly DDoS, along with the efforts of Cryptolocker and other tricks to ex…
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Five steps towards cyber breach preparation
Microsoft has released an update for its Malware Protection Engine to fix a privately reported security vulnerability that could allow a denial of service if the Microsoft Malware Protection Engine sc…
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Microsoft patches DoS flaw in its Malware Protection Engine
Pandemiya is 25,000 lines of original password-pinching botnet badassery An RSA researcher claims to have found an entirely new trojan during his trawls of the criminal underground.…
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Entirely new trojan quietly wheeled into black hat forums
Junk traffic mostly floods in from botnets DDoS traffic has more than trebled since the start of 2013, according to a new study released on Thursday that fingers zombie networks as the primary source of junk traffic that can be used to flood websites.…
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When ZOMBIES attack: DDoS traffic triples as 20Gbps becomes the new normal