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WiFi WarKitteh and DDoS Dog to stalk DEF CON 22

Pets make purrrfect pawns for surreptitious signal slurping A security boffin has created a ‘WarKitteh’ capable of sniffing WiFi packets.…

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YOU’RE HISTORY: Ancestry.com goes titsup for TWO DAYS

Did dads storm site on Father’s Day? Some seem to think so The genealogy site Ancestry.com has been blasted off the internet after reportedly being hit by a DDoS attack.…

Feedly DDoSed by ransom-threat crims: ‘We refused to give in’

RSS bods stand up to cyber creeps News aggregator Feedly has been knocked offline by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack after refusing to pay criminals to stop the attack.…

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Feds hunt 30-year-old alleged to be lord of Gameover botnet

Arrest warrant out as recommended clean-up site staggers under demand A US indictment has been unsealed against an alleged cybercrime mastermind following an FBI-led takedown operation that disrupted the internet infrastructure upon which the Gameover ZeuS botnet and the CryptoLocker ransomware had been running.…

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Feds charge 30-year-old suspect alleged to be lord of Gameover botnet

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Tens of thousands of pirate gamers enslaved by Bitcoin botnet

‘Watch Dogs’ players targeted for access to their juicy GPUs Tens of thousands of pirate gamers have been enslaved in a BitCoin botnet after downloading a leaked copy of popular game Watch Dogs.…

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Tens of thousands of ‘Watch Dogs’ pirates gamers ENSLAVED by Bitcoin botmaster

Watch Dogs fans targeted for access to their juicy GPUs Tens of thousands of pirate gamers have been enslaved in a Bitcoin botnet after downloading a cracked copy of popular game Watch Dogs .…

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If there’s somethin’ strange in your network ‘hood. Who y’gonna call? Google’s DDoS-busters

Project Shield guards activists, charities from web storms Google will shelter charities and activists from distributed denial-of-service attacks by wrapping their websites in its protection technologies.…

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GitHub wipes hand across bloodied face, stumbles from brutal DDoS beating

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.…

‘Quarter’ of TWO-MILLION-strong zombie PC army lured to their deaths

Pied piper Symantec says it led infected computers into sinkhole Symantec has claimed credit for luring a significant lump of the powerful ZeroAccess botnet into a sinkhole.…

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‘Quarter’ of TWO-MILLION-strong zombie PC army lured to their deaths