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
Less than a month since Microsoft's revelation that it had disrupted the functioning of the Nitol botnet by effecting a takedown of a domain (3322.org) which was also hosting over 500 different strain…
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Microsoft settles Nitol botnet lawsuit
Corero Network Security announced its First Line of Defense solution, which blocks L3-L7 DDoS and advanced targeted server attacks. Cyber criminals/terrorists have reached a level of complexity tha…
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Protection against DDoS and targeted attacks
Prolexic Technologies warned of an escalating threat from unusually large and highly sophisticated DDoS attacks. The DDoS attacks have been launched in the last week using the so-called itsoknopr…
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DDoS attacks reach new level of sophistication
The research team at e-mail security provider Eleven, published five tips today to help users prevent a botnet infection on their computer. Botnets are groups of hijacked private and corporate comp…
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How to prevent a botnet infection?
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
Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit has disrupted the functioning of yet another botnet by effecting a takedown of a domain which was also hosting over 500 different strains of malware and has been linked…
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Microsoft's study into unsecure supply chains leads to botnet disruption