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Chinese cyber-spies hid botnet controls in MS TechNet comments

Online spooks hide ‘numbers station’ control node in plain sight Cyber-spies are increasingly attempting to hide their command and control operations in plain sight by burying their command infrastructure in the forums of internet heavyweights, including Microsoft.…

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Time to patch your Cisco TelePresence systems

Because you can’t be telepresent when the bad guys are DOSing you Cisco TelePresence kit and software need patching after the company turned up vulnerabilities that open them up to remote command injection and denial of service attacks.…

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Home routers co-opted into self-sustaining DDoS botnet

Resulting mess will be hellishly difficult to clear up, say researchers Hackers have established “self-sustaining” botnets of poorly secured routers, according to DDoS mitigation firm Incapsula.…

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DDoSsers use reflection amplification to crank up the volume to 100Gbps+

Ne’er-do-wells: ‘Hey.’ Dumb servers: ‘WHAT?’ Targets: ‘AAARGH’ DDoS attacks have grown in volume yet again with 25 attacks larger than 100Gbps globally in Q1 2015, according to the latest stats from DDoS mitigation firm Arbor Networks.…

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Polymorphic Beebone botnet sinkholed in international police operation

On April 8, a global operation targeted the Beebone (also known as AAEH) botnet, a polymorphic downloader bot which installs various forms of malware on victims’ computers. Initial figures show tha…

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The injected JavaScript used to smash anti-Great Firewall of China GitHub projects offline

Servers up and down during 24-hour-long DDoS GitHub’s servers are being hammered by web traffic from an army of unwitting cyber-foot-soldiers.…

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CloudFlare launches nameserver DDoS shield

Hosed and hapless hosters to hide from hackers CloudFlare has launched a DNS proxy service it says will help organisations improve DNS resilience by pushing distributed denial of service attacks to the outer edge of its network.…

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Companies expects others to protect them against DDoS attacks

One in five businesses surveyed believe that their online services should be protected against DDoS attacks by their IT service providers (in particular, network providers). However, this responsibili…

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