And why serial self-promoter John McAfee is a security expert on Russian hacking Senate Democrats are pressing government officials to explain their claims on election tampering and cyberattacks.…
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US senators get digging to find out the truth about FCC DDoS attack
Bad news if you’ve been defrauded online Just one in three police forces in the UK are able to tackle cybercrime such as DDoS, malware attacks and online fraud, a Home Affairs Committee heard today.…
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Just a third of Brit cops are equipped to fight crime that is ‘cyber’
Researchers infected devices and totted up all the ‘leccy and bandwidth they used Berkeley boffins reckon the Dyn-based Internet of Things attack that took down Brian Krebs’ Website in 2016 cost device owners over $US320,000.…
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Mirai botnet cost you $13.50 per infected thing, say boffins
But no Daily Stormer please Cloudflare made its name proxying traffic for web servers, on network ports 80 (HTTP) and 443 (HTTPS), as a defense against denial of service attacks and their ilk.…
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Cloudflare promises to tend not two, but 65,535 ports in a storm
Memcached attacks are going to be this year’s thing Last week, the code repository GitHub was taken off air in a 1.3Tbps denial of service attack. We predicted then that there would be more such attacks and it seems we were right.…
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World’s biggest DDoS attack record broken after just five days
With a special HNAP exploit just for D-Link kit Security researchers believe the author of the Satori botnet is at it again, this time attacking routers to craft a botnet dubbed “Masuta”.…
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Fresh botnet recruiting routers with weak credentials
Infections spread across over 200 regions Police and private companies have taken down a massive botnet used to move malware onto compromised PCs.…
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International team takes down virus-spewing Andromeda botnet
Even CHARGEN services are hosed, daily, says CAIDA study One-third of Internet hosts with IPv4 addresses were subject to denial of service attacks in the last two years.…
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DoS scum attacked one-third of the ‘net between 2015 and 2017
But numbers aren’t everything, are they, Dyn? The Reaper IoT botnet is nowhere near as threatening as previously suggested, according to new research.…
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Reaper IoT botnet ain’t so scary, contains fewer than 20,000 drones
Necurs botnet spreads ransomware carried in Office documents The ever-vigilant folk at the Internet Storm Centre (SANS) have spotted yet another campaign trying to drop the Locky ransomware using compromised Word files.…
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New phishing campaign uses 30-year-old Microsoft mess as bait