Entire country gets to enjoy life without the web thanks to huge DDoS attack The West African country of Liberia was knocked offline this week.…
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Mirai IoT botnet blamed for smashing Liberia off the internet
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Universal hijack hole turns DIY Wix blogs into botnets
Communications failure leads to zero day, late patch, natch. Millions of do-it-yourself websites built with the Wix web maker were at risk of hijack thanks to a brief zero day DOM-based cross-site scripting vulnerability.…
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William Hill website under siege from DDoS attacks
Life’s a lottery, even with Darktrace supporting your online services… William Hill is currently on the receiving end of a Distributed Denial of Service attack.…
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Bookmakers William Hill under siege from DDoS internet flood
IT admins are having a hell of an evening? You can bet on it! Well, on another website William Hill is currently on the receiving end of a Distributed Denial of Service attack.…
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Boffin’s anti-worm bot could silence epic Mirai DDoS attack army
And break every computer crime law along the way A GitHub user going by Leo Linsky has forked a repo created by researcher Jerry Gamblin to create an anti-worm “nematode” that could help to patch vulnerable devices used in the massive Mirai distributed denial of service attack.…
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Boffin’s anti-worm bot could silence epic Mirai DDoS attack army
Smart home threat
Recent cyber-attacks using botnet armies of hacked “internet of things” devices highlights the pressing need for improved security.
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Smart home threat
Dyn dinged by DDoS: US DNS firm gives web a bad hair day
Reddit, Github, Airbnb and pals affected A denial of service attack against managed DNS provider Dyn restricted access to many US-based websites on Friday.…
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Dyn dinged by DDoS: US DNS firm gives web a bad hair day
SANS issues call to arms to battle IoT botnets
Do try this at home – but carefully The SANS Institute is hoping sysadmins can help it to do what vendors won’t: improve Internet of Things security.…
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Source code unleashed for junk-blasting Internet of Things botnet
Hackforums leak Malicious code used to press-gang IoT connected devices into a botnet was leaked online over the weekend.…
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No wonder we’re being hit by Internet of Things botnets. Ever tried patching a Thing?
Akamai CSO laments pisspoor security design practices Internet of Things devices are starting to pose a real threat to security for the sensible part of the web, Akamai’s chief security officer Andy Ellis has told The Register .…
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No wonder we’re being hit by Internet of Things botnets. Ever tried patching a Thing?