There is a DDoS debate in the cybersecurity industry about which solution is more effective – multi-layer or single. However, the argument is really more complex and must consider traditional defenses…
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The DDoS debate: Multi-layered versus single solution
Thirteen defendants pleaded guilty in federal court in San Jose on Friday to charges related to their involvement in the cyber-attack of PayPal’s website as part of the group Anonymous. One of the def…
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13 Anonymous hackers plead guilty to PayPal DDoS attack
Here's an overview of some of last week's most interesting news and articles: (IN)SECURE Magazine issue 40 released (IN)SECURE Magazine is a free digital security publication discussing some of …
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Week in review: Air gap-hopping malware, first PoS botnet, and the new issue of (IN)SECURE Magazine
The Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit announced it has successfully disrupted a rampant botnet in collaboration with Europol's European Cybercrime Centre (EC3), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) a…
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Microsoft and law enforcement disrupt ZeroAccess botnet
Researchers from Arbor Networks have spotted an active Point of Sale (PoS) compromise campaign using the Dexter malware or variants of it, aimed at stealing credit and debit card data. “The exa…
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Researchers uncover Point-of-Sale botnet
A Wisconsin man has been sentenced to two years federal probation and ordered to pay restitution for taking part in a 2011 DDoS attack mounted against the official website of Koch Industries by the An…
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Wisconsin man sentenced for DDoS attack against Koch Industries
Akamai and Prolexic have signed a definitive agreement for Akamai to acquire Prolexic, a provider of cloud-based security solutions for protecting data centers and enterprise IP applications from DDoS…
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Akamai to acquire Prolexic
Copenhagen-based Bitcoin Internet Payment Services (BIPS) has been hit with a DDoS attack and has had 1,295 BTC stolen (a little over $1M) mostly from the company’s own holdings, but some from their c…
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$1M lost in attack against Bitcoin Internet Payment Services
Prolexic announced the results of a survey of global e-commerce companies who were asked about DDoS protection and the effectiveness of different types of DDoS mitigation services. A cross-sectio…
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What e-commerce companies think about DDoS protection
Stefano Zanero is an Assistant Professor at Politechnico di Milano, where he focuses on systems security. Modern botnets rely on domain-generation algorithms (DGAs) to build resilient command-and-c…
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Tracking botnets using automatically generated domains