The mystery of the LinkedIn outage has been revealed: Network Solutions, its DNS provider, has been battered by a DDoS attack and while defending itself, misconfigured the DNS records of some of its c…
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LinkedIn outage was due to DNS records misconfiguration
Following increased efforts by a number of companies and organizations, the takedown on botnet C&C servers is now a pretty regular occurrence and cyber crooks have reacted by decentralizing the commun…
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Researches test resilience of P2P botnets
Member states of the European Union might soon be creating new laws that will raise minimum prison sentences for convicted cyber attackers and botnet herders. Last week, the European Parliament …
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EU to vote on stiffer penalties for hackers
Last week's disruption of nearly 1500 Citadel botnets believed to be responsible for over half a billion US dollars in financial fraud and affecting more than five million people in 90 countries has b…
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Microsoft Citadel takedown ultimately counterproductive
Mt. Gox is the the largest Bitcoin exchange in the world, and as such it and its users are being repeatedly targeted by attackers. Some two months ago, it battled a massive DDoS attack that was lik…
Barracuda Networks announced Barracuda Web Application Firewall 7.8, specifically aimed at reducing the impact of automated attack attempts from botnets. Automated botnet attacks recently have gain…
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Barracuda updates web application firewall
Prolexic has issued a number of recommendations that organizations can use to validate their DDoS defenses, as well as protection services they receive from mitigation providers. Organizations sh…
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Tips for validating DDoS defenses
The central organizer of a worldwide conspiracy to manipulate stock prices through a “botnet” network of virus-controlled computers was sentenced today to 71 months in prison and was ordered to pay a …
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Fraudster who hired hackers to manipulate stock prices goes to prison
Sven Olaf Kamphuis, owner and manager of Dutch “bulletproof hosting” firm Cyberbunker and of CB3ROB ISP, has been extradited to the Netherlands on Monday. The 35-year-old Dutch citizen was arrested…
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Spamhaus DDoS suspect extradited to his home country
The German Anti-Botnet Advisory Centre is warning (in German) users about a new ransomware / BKA Trojan variant that accuses users of being involved in the reproduction of pornographic material involv…