Console hacker DDoS bot runs on lame home routers Console DDoSers Lizard Squad are using insecure home routers for a paid service that floods target networks, researchers say.…
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Finnish bank takes cricket bat to wave after wave of DDoS varmints
When they were up, they were up, and when they were down… Finnish bank OP is continuing to fight off a cascading series of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks that began on New Year’s Eve.…
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Finnish bank takes cricket bat to wave after wave of DDoS varmints
Rackspace restored after DDOS takes out DNS
25-hour incident blocked traffic from reaching rackspace.com and some subdomains Rackspace says it has recovered from a nasty distributed denial of service attack that it says may have seen “a portion of legitimate traffic to our DNS infrastructure … inadvertently blocked.”…
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Rackspace restored after DDOS takes out DNS
Sony Pictures hit by ‘fightback on filesharers’ DDoS claims – report
War on Guardians of Peace? Sony Pictures is alleged to have conducted a retaliatory DDoS attack against websites currently holding its leaked information for public download, according to a media report.…
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Shellshock over SMTP attacks mean you can now ignore your email
‘But boss, the Internet Storm Centre says it’s dangerous for me to reply to you’ Yet another round of Shellshock attacks is emerging, according to the SANS Internet Storm Center – this time, botnets are tapping hosts over SMTP.…
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Shellshock over SMTP attacks mean you can now ignore your email
Monster banking Trojan botnet claims 500,000 victims
This ain’t your father’s ZeuS Security researchers have uncovered the infrastructure behind one of largest and most voracious banking Trojan networks uncovered to date.…
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Monster banking Trojan botnet claims 500,000 victims
Apple tries to kill iWorm: Zombie botnet feasting on Mac brains
Updates XProtect Apple has updated its XProtect anti-malware system to squash several variants of the iWorm before the malware causes any further damage.…
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Apple tries to kill iWorm: Zombie botnet feasting on Mac brains
Will we ever can the spam monster?
An unending battle against email-borne nasties and botnets Spam may be the best known security threat in the world. Anyone with email or a Facebook account has experienced it, despite providers’ best efforts to block it from their inboxes.…
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Will we ever can the spam monster?
MAC BOTNET uses REDDIT comments for directions
17,000 Macs compromised by malicious miscreants A zombie network that feasts on the computer brains of infected Macs has press-ganged 17,000 compromised machines into its ranks, Russian anti-virus firm Dr Web warns.…
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Researcher details nasty XSS flaw in popular web editor
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