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Palo Alto reveals critical bugs and March 16th patch deadline

Researcher who found the flaws will reveal crim-friendly details in three weeks Palo Alto Networks has revealed four new nasties, one of which can allow remote code execution and DDOS attacks on its boxen, and given users until March 16th to patch them.…

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Is DNSSEC causing more problems than it solves?

New paper points to security protocol as vector for DDoS attacks The complex security protocol for the domain name system – DNSSEC – has another black mark against it: it is being used as a way to carry out denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.…

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Roses are red, violets are blue, Valentine’s Day means DDoS for you

Net scum target florists on day of commercialised romance Net scum have bashed florists with distributed denial of service attacks over Valentine’s Day in a bid to extract ransoms, security analysts say.…

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HSBC online services still offline following ‘attack’ on bank

Oh no – not again! Updated   HSBC customers were once again locked out of online banking this morning, following an apparent DDoS attack on the bank.…

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Israeli academics claim they can predict botnet attacks

Isolated attacks can add up to concerted malbot action , say boffins Ben Gurion University researchers have developed a tool capable of predicting future botnet attacks while also distinguishing between human and automated campaigns.…

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Irish government websites hit by widening DDoS attacks

First they came for the forums. Then the lottery. Now… A number of Irish government-related and public sector websites were knocked offline by an apparent DDoS attack on Friday morning.…

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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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Under-attack Linode resets passwords after logins leak onto web

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

White hats, FBI and cops team up for Dorkbot botnet takedown

Your four-year reign of terror is (temporarily) over Operations of the Dorkbot botnet have been disrupted following an operation that brought together law enforcement agencies led by the FBI, Interpol and Europol, and various infosec firms.…

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