Crims also move to Silverlight, according to Cisco Cisco’s annual report on the state of global cybersecurity claims spammers just won’t die and are using new tactics to avoid detection by filters; malware programmers are abandoning exploiting Java; and there’s a possible silver cloud in the Sony Pictures hacking storm.…
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2014 in infosec: Spammers sneak small botnets under the wire, Java is dull
Titsup gaming service struggling to return to life 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 48 hours 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
Crimeware-as-a-Service Crooks behind Vawtrak, a dangerous banking Trojan, are ramping up its reach and sophistication, security firms have warned.…
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Vawtrak challenges almighty ZeuS as king of the botnets
Akamai Technologies released, through the company's Prolexic Security Engineering & Response Team (PLXsert), a new cybersecurity threat advisory that alerts enterprises to a high-risk threat of powerf…
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Mitigations for Spike DDoS toolkit-powered attacks
Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks have in the past been viewed mostly as a tool of online protest due to Anonymous' obvious predilection for this service disruption technique, but have long…
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