You just exposed your users to world+dog, buddy A DDoS-for-hire service purportedly set up by the Lizard Squad hacking crew exposes registered users’ login credentials.…
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Week in review: Google discloses Windows flaw, French sites under attack, Android users in danger
Here's an overview of some of last week's most interesting news and articles: LizardSquad's DDoS service is powered by hacked home routers The preponderance of routers represented in the botnet …
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Week in review: Google discloses Windows flaw, French sites under attack, Android users in danger
Yahoo! servers! SHELLSHOCKED! by! Bash! bug! bad! boys!
Hash bang wallop Updated Yahoo ! has confirmed “a handful” of its systems fell to hackers exploiting the Shellshock vulnerability in Bash. The miscreants used the hole to take control of the web servers and build a botnet out of them.…
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Global DDoS attack numbers decline, attacks from China rise
In the second quarter of 2014, Akamai observed attack traffic originating from 161 unique countries/regions, which was 33 fewer than the first quarter of the year. The highest concentration of attacks…
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Global DDoS attack numbers decline, attacks from China rise
Bad boy builds beastly Bash bug botnet – boxen battered
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
Use home networking kit? DDoS bot is BACK… and it has EVOLVED
OMG, it reconfigures your firewall… SAVE yourselves, Linux lords A router-to-router bot first detected two years ago has evolved – and now has the capability to reconfigure the firewalls of its victims.…
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Use home networking kit? DDoS bot is BACK… and it has EVOLVED
Week in review: Linux systems ensnared in DDoS botnet and Home Depot breach
Here's an overview of some of last week's most interesting news, podcasts, and articles: IT security is a matter of accountability The CEO has always had responsibility for the overall growth an…
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Week in review: Linux systems ensnared in DDoS botnet and Home Depot breach
Fake GoogleBots are third most common DDoS attacker
An analysis of 400 million search engine visits to 10,000 sites done by Incapsula researchers has revealed details that might be interesting to web operators and SEO professionals. Namely, that:G…
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Fake GoogleBots are third most common DDoS attacker
Mayhem malware ropes Linux, UNIX servers into botnets
A new malware that researchers have dubbed Mayhem is being used to target Linux and Unix web servers and has so far compromised over 1,400 Linux and FreeBSD servers around the world, warn researchers …
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Mayhem malware ropes Linux, UNIX servers into botnets
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.…