Xnote.1 – the Swiss Army knife of malware Cybercrooks have cooked up a backdoor for Linux-powered systems, which boasts multiple malicious functions.…
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ACHTUNG! Scary Linux system backdoor turns boxes into DDoS droids
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Nice SECURITY, ‘Lizard Squad’. Your DDoS-for-hire service LEAKS
You just exposed your users to world+dog, buddy A DDoS-for-hire service purportedly set up by the Lizard Squad hacking crew exposes registered users’ login credentials.…
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Nice SECURITY, ‘Lizard Squad’. Your DDoS-for-hire service LEAKS
IT cock-up – not jihadi DDoS – fingered for French web media blackout
Avez-vous essayé redémarrage il? Several prominent ?French news websites? fell off the web on Friday for several hours in what’s looking like a technical failure rather than a denial-of-service attack. It was, at first, assumed Islamist miscreants had attacked the sites, lashing out in anger at press coverage of the C?harlie Hebdo? killings.…
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IT cock-up – not jihadi DDoS – fingered for French web media blackout
Young CHAP CUFFED in Blighty over Xmas Sony and XBOX hacks
Plods chum up with FBI UK coppers and the FBI have arrested a man in connection with the denial of service attack on Sony Playstation and Xbox systems in 2014.…
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Young CHAP CUFFED in Blighty over Xmas Sony and XBOX hacks
Router creds admin/admin? Lizard Squad thanks you
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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Router creds admin/admin? Lizard Squad thanks you
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
PlayStation clambers back online days after DDoS attack PARALYSED network
Gaming service STILL struggling to return to life Updated Sony’s PlayStation network is slowly returning to normal service roughly 48 hours after it was hit by another major distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on Christmas Day.…
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PlayStation clambers back online days after DDoS attack PARALYSED network
Yahoo! servers! SHELLSHOCKED! by! Bash! bug! bad! boys!
Hash bang wallop Updated Yahoo ! has confirmed “a handful” of its systems fell to hackers exploiting the Shellshock vulnerability in Bash. The miscreants used the hole to take control of the web servers and build a botnet out of them.…
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Tor traffic torrent: It ain’t the Syrians, it’s the BOTS
‘No humans are behind these clients’ The recent spike in traffic on the Tor anonymizing relay network is probably due to botnet activity rather than any recent political developments, research by Tor Project members has concluded.…
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Tor traffic torrent: It ain’t the Syrians, it’s the BOTS
BIGGEST DDoS in history FAILS to slash interweb arteries
Bombardment without collateral damage – amazing Analysis The massive 300Gbit-a-second DDoS attack against anti-spam non-profit Spamhaus this week didn’t actually break the internet’s backbone, contrary to many early reports.…
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BIGGEST DDoS in history FAILS to slash interweb arteries