Everything from DoS to device access Cisco has issued patches and mitigation instructions for 16 of its wireless products, to take care of a number of denial of service vulnerabilities and one unauthorised access vulnerability.…
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Cisco patches enterprise wireless vulns
NTP flaw used again, effects minimal Once again hackers are targeting content-delivery firm Cloudfare, and the company says this latest attack is its biggest yet, peaking at over 400Gbps of traffic.…
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Europe shrugs off largest DDoS attack yet, traffic tops 400Gbps
JTRIG active intelligence unit boasts of bugging and burgling At the start of this week, documents released by whistleblower Edward Snowden detailed DDOS attacks on chatrooms by a British online intelligence unit dubbed the Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group (JTRIG). Now he has released a new trove showing that JTRIG is about much more than purely online annoyances.…
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Snowden documents show British digital spies using viruses and ‘honey traps’
Internet of Things security scares already need to take a chill pill It’s still silly season, it seems. Tell the world that a bunch of small business broadband routers have been compromised and recruited into botnets, and the world yawns.…
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SPAM supposedly spotted leaving the fridge
OK, who hates fun? Valve’s online gaming platform Steam and Electronic Arts’ Origin were hit by separate DDoS attacks over the weekend.…
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Steam and Origin gamers knocked offline by SEPARATE DDoS attacks
Butterfly flapped its wings and caused internet hurricane A Slovenian virus writer who created an infamous strain of malware used to infect an estimated 12 million computers worldwide has been jailed for almost five years.…
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Slovenian jailed for creating code behind 12 MILLION strong ‘Mariposa’ botnet army
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
Install fake Microsoft extra, become SQL-squirting zombie Cybercrooks have brewed up a botnet that uses a bogus Firefox add-on to scan the web for hackable websites.…
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Bogus Firefox add-on FORCES WITLESS USERS to join vuln-hunting party
Just don’t bork our crim-busting honeypots again Microsoft has teamed up with the FBI to launch a renewed attempt to disrupt the operations of the infamous ZeroAccess botnet.…
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Microsoft teams up with Feds, Interpol in ZeroAccess botnet zombie hunt
Just don’t bork our crim-busting honeypots again Microsoft has teamed up with the FBI to launch a renewed attempt to disrupt the operations of the infamous ZeroAccess botnet.…
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Microsoft teams up with Feds, Europol in ZeroAccess botnet zombie hunt