One of the classic debates in computer science concerns whether artificial intelligence or virtual reality is the more worthwhile pursuit. The advocates of artificial intelligence argue that computers…
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Visual investigations of botnet command and control behavior
IBM announced a new cloud solution that combines software analytics and cloud security services to fend off web-based DDoS attacks for organizations doing business on the web and in the cloud. The new…
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IBM unveils new cloud solution
DDoS perpetrators changed tactics in Q3 2013 to boost attack sizes and hide their identities, according to Prolexic. “This quarter, the major concern is that reflection attacks are accelerating d…
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Attackers use smaller botnets to launch high-bandwidth attacks
Arbor Networks have collaborated with Google Ideas to create a data visualization that maps global DDoS attacks. Google Ideas – a ‘think/do’ tank – explores how technology can enable people to co…
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Data visualization of global DDoS attacks
Does the Internet of Things scare you? It probably should. This DerbyCon video discusses why embedded device security is laughably bad, handling vendor notification, and setting up a dev environment t…
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The Internet of Things: Vulns, botnets and detection
Arbor Networks released data on global DDoS attack trends for the first three quarters of 2013. The data shows that DDoS continues to be a global threat, with alarming increases in attack size this ye…
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DDoS attack size accelerating rapidly
ZeroAccess (or Sirefef) is a piece of malware that is very adept at hiding its existence from users, and brings in huge sums of money to its masters by performing click-fraud and Bitcoin mining. Th…
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Lessons learned from sinkholing the ZeroAccess botnet
Many security professionals have heard about Command & Control botnets, even more have been infected by them. Very few have had the opportunity to actually look inside the server control panel of a C&…
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Video: DIY Command & Control for fun and no profit
In a race against time and ZeroAccess developers and botmasters, Symantec researchers managed to sinkhole a large chunk of the infamous P2P-based botnet before its herders managed to update the bots a…
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Researchers sinkhole half a million ZeroAccess bots
Following the massive DDoS attack against anti-spam outfit Spamhaus earlier this year, a 35-year-old Dutch citizen believed to be Sven Kamphuis, the owner and manager of Dutch hosting firm Cyberbunker…