Researcher who found the flaws will reveal crim-friendly details in three weeks Palo Alto Networks has revealed four new nasties, one of which can allow remote code execution and DDOS attacks on its boxen, and given users until March 16th to patch them.…
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Palo Alto reveals critical bugs and March 16th patch deadline
Some in the IEEE reckon it’d be a good idea, before your toaster burns more than bread The Internet toaster that’s browning your crumpets, talking to its home servers, and participating in a ransomware-distributing botnet should get the kind of cyber-safety testing that it gets for physical safety.…
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Does the Internet of Things need an indie security assessor?
Ah, great. Ave AV Part of the distribution channel of the Dridex banking Trojan botnet may have been hacked, with malicious links replaced by installers for Avira Antivirus.…
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Mystery hacker hijacks Dridex Trojan botnet… to serve antivirus installer
Oh no – not again! Updated HSBC customers were once again locked out of online banking this morning, following an apparent DDoS attack on the bank.…
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HSBC online services still offline following ‘attack’ on bank
Booter blasters belt businesses. The world’s largest distributed denial of service attack has been clocked at 500Gbps, according to Arbor Networks.…
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500Gbps DDoS attack flattens world record
Could it be bots that fall for for those ‘One Weird Trick’ ads? Here’s hoping! Botnets will inflict a massive US$7.2 billion in damages against online advertisers this year according to research by ad security company White Ops.…
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Irish forum goes away with the fairies for a while Productivity in the Emerald Isle may have peaked on Tuesday with an outage of popular forum boards.ie coming on top of Twitter’s TITSUP moment.…
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Boards.ie floored by DDoS assault
It’s like pulling a smoking car off the road… Oh, 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 asks: We’ve taken down botnets for you. How about a kill switch?
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?
DDoS’d virtual server host’s hell continues Linode’s woes continue: the server hosting biz has just run a system-wide password reset on customer accounts after two Linode.com user credentials were discovered “on an external machine.”…
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Under-attack Linode resets passwords after logins leak onto web