Dump docs on users’ disks using only ASCII art (°O°) Cisco researchers have reported a trio of vulnerabilities in popular instant messaging client Pidgin that allow for denial of service by way of emoticon abuse and remote arbitrary file creation.…
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Emoticons blast three security holes in Pidgin 🙁
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
Not just web servers under threat – though TENS of THOUSANDS have been hit The Shellshock vulnerability has already become the focus for malicious scanning and at least one botnet but crooks are still testing the waters with the vulnerability and much worse could follow, security watchers warn.…
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Shellshock: ‘LARGER SCALE ATTACK’ on its way, warn securo-bods
Gran’s knitting site etc sucked up into pr0n spam botnet A long established smut spammer is using hacked websites to sell stolen photographs of naked celebrities including Jennifer Lawrence, Kate Upton and McKayla Maroney.…
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Spammer uses innocent hacked blogs to punt NAKED PICS of JLaw, McKayla Maroney
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
Gets back up again after half an hour though 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? ello? ello?: Facebook challenger in DDoS KNOCKOUT
DDoS zombie army found in the wild hours after flaw surfaces Mere hours after its discovery, the Shell Shock Bash vulnerability was exploited by an attacker to build a botnet.…
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Bad boy builds beastly Bash bug botnet – boxen battered
SANS spots new, dumb attack Google’s DNS IP address is being spoofed by an attacker, apparently in an attempt to DDoS hosts vulnerable to a flaw in the SNMP protocol.…
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Attackers tapping on SNMP door to see if it’s open