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Ad-clicking bots predicted to rip US$7.2 billion from Mad Men

Could it be bots that fall for for those ‘One Weird Trick’ ads? Here’s hoping! Botnets will inflict a massive US$7.2 billion in damages against online advertisers this year according to research by ad security company White Ops.…

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Microsoft asks: We’ve taken down botnets for you. How about a kill switch?

It’s like pulling a smoking car off the road… Oh, hang on Last December, Microsoft intercepted traffic on users’ PCs and helped break up a botnet. And nobody complained. So the company very tentatively asked at a session on ethics and policy in Brussels this week whether it should do more.…

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Microsoft asks: We’ve taken down botnets for you. How about a kill switch?

Under-attack Linode resets passwords after logins leak onto web

DDoS’d virtual server host’s hell continues Linode’s woes continue: the server hosting biz has just run a system-wide password reset on customer accounts after two Linode.com user credentials were discovered “on an external machine.”…

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Security sweep firm links botnet infestation and file sharing

Public sector apparently suffers most from idle P2Pers Updated   There’s high degree of correlation between organisations with P2P activity and system compromises via malware infections, according to a new study by BitSight Technologies.…

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Day 2: UK research network Janet still being slapped by DDoS attack

DNS services appear to be targeted, switching may work Members of UK’s academic community from freshers to senior academics are facing more connection issues today as a persistent and continuous DDoS attack against the academic computer network Janet continues to stretch resources.…

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UK research network Janet under ongoing and persistent DDoS attack

Attackers seem to be adjusting methods in response to Tweets Publicly-funded academic computer network Janet has come under a persistent DDoS attack today, which hobbled multiple internet connections, including the Manchester to Manchester Core Router.…

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Merseyside DDoS daddy given eight months behind bars

When bragging of your illegal exploits, leave off your real name A UK man has been given eight and a half months in prison for launching a series of distributed denial-of-service attacks in 2013.…

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Twitter DM character limit liberation spells opportunity for botnets

Direct message command and control hides in the walla walla rhubarb. London security researcher Paul Amar has built a tool capable of exploiting Twitter’s extended direct messaging function for covert botnet command and control.…

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