Hacker fingered for heroin stunt takes the stand A Ukrainian man extradited from Italy has gone on trial in New Jersey accused of running a botnet and dealing in stolen credit cards.…
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Alleged Ukrainian botnet herder faces 43 years after Italian job snafu
Ruskies sling malicious packet to trigger denial of service. Positive Technologies researchers Timur Yunusov and Kirill Nesterov have found since-patched remote execution and denial of service vulnerabilities in a popular Huawei 4G USB modem that can allow attackers to hijack connected computers.…
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Remote code exec hijack hole found in Huawei 4G USB modems
Stallman sycophant offers password reminders and handy debug tips. Threat boffin Mario Ballano says VXers have broken into a host of routers creating a botnet dedicated solely to securing and hardening the devices.…
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Vigilante VXer FIXES SOHOpeless routers
Should have stayed under the skirt of Mother Russia. Just a thought Dimitry Belorossov – a Russian cyber-criminal who used the Citadel banking trojan – has been sentenced to four years and six months in a US prison after pleading guilty to conspiring to commit computer fraud.…
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Russian hacker, nabbed in Spain, cops 4+ years for Citadel botnet
CloudFlare has turned up an unusual form of denial-of-service attack: mobile advertisements that are pumping out around 275,000 HTTP requests per second.…
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Mobile advertising DDoS JavaScript drip serves site with 4.5 billion hits
Crooks can thrive by ‘living off the land’ rather than forging elaborate schemes Half of all breaches Dell’s SecureWorks outfit has responded to over the last year have been a result of attackers using legitimate admin tools and stolen credentials.…
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3l33t haxxors don’t need no botnet, they just pinch passwords
‘I will do 19 years’ attacker says in garbled English – perhaps accidentally right A teenager from Brazil has claimed responsibility for a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on Essex Police’s website, following a similar attack on another force earlier this week.…
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Bored Brazilian skiddie claims DDoS against Essex Police
No workaround, so it’s ‘patch or chuck it in the bin’ Cisco has patched a denial of service vulnerability in its unified computing platform.…
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Borg bashes destabilising DoS bug in USC kit
No workaround, so it’s ‘patch or chuck it in the bin’ Cisco has patched a denial of service vulnerability in its unified computing platform.…
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Borg bashes destabilising DoS bug in UCS kit
Or not, if you look at the numbers Australia has won the dubious honour of being named in the global top-10 DDoS sources, and in its quarterly State of the Internet report, Akamai reckons our tiny number of high-speed fibre broadband users are the cause.…
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NBN vaults Australia into global top-10 … DDoS attack sources