The undead are coming, and they have 1Gbps pipes! A critical vulnerability in trendy web programming kit Ruby on Rails is being abused to conscript hacked website servers into a growing botnet army.…
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Ruby on Fails: Zombie SERVER army built thanks to Rails bug
Dutch suspect snatched in Spain The Dutch police have confirmed the arrest of man suspected of taking part in a massive DDoS attack against the anti-spam group Spamhaus back in March.…
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Police arrest suspect in BIGGEST DDoS ATTACK IN HISTORY
Crooks blasting public-safety phone lines with calls The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has cautioned public-safety call centers against the rise of so-called telephony denial of service (TDoS) attacks, which it says have the potential to cripple local telephone exchanges.…
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Call centers under attack in targeted cyber-blackmail scheme
Plucky mail scrubbers battle internet carpet bombers Anti-spam organisation Spamhaus has recovered from possibly the largest ?DDoS? attack in history.…
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BIGGEST DDoS ATTACK IN HISTORY hammers Spamhaus
A fascinating but technically illegal experiment conducted by an anonymous researcher has witnessed over 420,000 Internet-connected devices being roped into a botnet that functioned as a distributed p…
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Researcher ropes poorly protected devices into botnet to map the Internet
Anonymous is mostly known for their real-life and online protests, DDoS attacks, and shaming of businesses and government organizations by publicly releasing confidential data stolen from their server…
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Anonymous hacks police forum, sends emails to police officers
Prolexic has released a DDoS downtime cost calculator (registration required) which takes into consideration the many DDoS attack variables that can affect revenue. Using this calculator, businesse…
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Online DDoS downtime calculator
In yet another example of if-it's-too-good-to-be-true-it-probably-isn't, hundreds of thousands of users signing up for a cheap and supposedly legitimate proxy service have ended up downloading malware…
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Proxy service users download malware, unknowingly join botnet
The ZeroAccess rootkit has been around for quite some time now, spying on infected users, hiding from installed AV solutions and attempting to terminate them, redirecting users' online searches to mal…
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Lucrative ZeroAccess botnet enslaves one million active computers
Imperva released its September Hacker Intelligence report, which details the latest methods deployed by hackers to execute DDoS attacks by analyzing the technical tools and trends employed during mult…
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Deconstructing hacktivist operations and tools