First denial, then anger, then DDoS , then patching. A tool that’s popular with Microsoft’s in-house developers, the RadEditor HTML editor, contains a dangerous cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability, researcher GS McNamara says.…
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Researcher details nasty XSS flaw in popular web editor
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, brutally batters boxes
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
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are quickly becoming the preferred method for cyber attackers to wreak havoc on the internet. With a recent spate of attention grabbing headlines focused o…
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Dispelling the myths behind DDoS attacks
In light of the escalation of DDoS attacks used as a means of extorting money from online businesses, the news that there has been a significant decrease in vulnerable Network Time Protocol (NTP) serv…
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Drastic decline in vulnerable NTP servers due to Heartbleed?
Earlier this week, Domino’s Pizza became the latest victim of a breach and ransom demand. Recent DDoS attacks on Evernote and Feedly DDoS, along with the efforts of Cryptolocker and other tricks to ex…
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Five steps towards cyber breach preparation
On Friday, 30 May 2014, law enforcement agencies from across the world, supported by the European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) at Europol, joined forces in a coordinated action led by the FBI which ensured…
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International action against Gameover Zeus botnet and CyptoLocker ransomware
Polish crims demanded 50% of gambling biz, on pain of firm-killing cyber attacks A pair of cyber-extortionists who attempted to blackmail a Manchester-based online casino with threats of unleashing a debilitating denial of service attack have been jailed for five years and four months.…
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Casino DDoS duo caged for five years after blackmail buyout threat
El Reg talks to anti-DDos bods – who UNMASK the target… Exclusive Web security firm Incapsula helped a Chinese Bitcoin trader to weather a ferocious denial-of-service attack last month when the volume of inbound traffic to the site peaked at 100Gbps.…
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How mystery DDoSers tried to take down Bitcoin exchange with 100Gbps crapflood
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