Bet you’re shocked to hear that, aren’t you? The Tor anonymisation network is being used to hide 900 botnet and cybercrime-related hidden services, according to Kaspersky Lab.…
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Botnet masters using Tor to hide control tools for ZOMBIE SLAVES
Everything from DoS to device access Cisco has issued patches and mitigation instructions for 16 of its wireless products, to take care of a number of denial of service vulnerabilities and one unauthorised access vulnerability.…
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Cisco patches enterprise wireless vulns
Wouldn’t have happened if you’d just used SVN, eh! Popular source-code warehouse GitHub was back online today after weathering a huge denial-of-service attack throughout the week.…
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GitHub wipes hand across bloodied face, stumbles from brutal DDoS beating
Protection against DoS Time to get patching, sys admins: ISC (the Internet Systems Consortium) has issued a fix for a BIND 9 denial of service vulnerability.…
Virtual currency in real trouble Bitcoin exchange Mt.Gox has been attacked and its servers briefly taken offline.…
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DDOS strikes BitCoin exchange Mt.Gox
Lawmen respond to Anonymous attack on right-wing moneymen A 37-year-old Wisconsin man has been charged over his alleged involvement in denial-of-service attacks against Koch Industries.…
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Wisconsin man cuffed over Koch-blocking DDoS attack
Plucky mail scrubbers battle internet carpet bombers Anti-spam organisation Spamhaus has recovered from possibly the largest ?DDoS? attack in history.…
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BIGGEST DDoS ATTACK IN HISTORY hammers Spamhaus
Click fraudster bot fingered after analysts crack its signature A web analytics firm has sniffed out a botnet that was raking in $6m a month from online advertisers.…
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Chameleon botnet grabbed $6m A MONTH from online ad-slingers
Sorry about your servers, they fell down some stairs The Bamital web-search-hijacking botnet has been taken down by security researchers from Microsoft and Symantec with help from the Feds. The crack unit raided a number of data centres where the botnet’s servers were located.…
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Microsoft techies bust data centres, pull plug on Bamital botnet
Less like the Hulk, more like Iron Man The days when attackers relied on sheer bandwidth volume alone to knock out websites are over, with miscreants increasingly using application-layer and multi-vector attacks.…
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Report: DDoS attacks now MORE ANGRY, complex and targeted