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Week in review: DDoS attacks becoming more effective, and how to build trust between business and IT

Here's an overview of some of last week's most interesting news, articles and interviews: Gathering and using threat intelligence In this interview, Tomer Teller, Security Innovation Manager at…

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Week in review: DDoS attacks becoming more effective, and how to build trust between business and IT

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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Swiping your card at local greengrocers? Miscreants will swipe YOU in a minute

Keylogging botnet Nemanja is coming to a small biz near you More than a thousand point-of-sale, grocery management and accounting systems worldwide have been compromised by a new strain of malware, results of a March 2014 probe have revealed.…

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Swiping your card at local greengrocers? Miscreants will swipe YOU in a minute

Linux distros get patching on terminal bug

Pseudo-terminal buffer bug from 2009 discovered Linux admins need to get busy patching, as a newly discovered bug has emerged in the kernel’s tty handling that can let local users create memory corruption leading to denial of service, unauthorised modification of data, and disclosure of information.…

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Boffins pen ‘Guide to better spamming’

Small, widely-dispersed botnets ought to do the trick Ignoring the manual and keeping your ‘bot nimble are some of the tips a quartet of security researchers have recommended to help spam reach inboxes more effectively.…

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Boffins pen ‘Guide to better spamming’