Blog networks can be force-fed more than they can chew Giant cookies could be used to create a denial of service (DoS) on blog networks, says infosec researcher Bogdan Calin.…
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Sysadmins rejoice! Patch rampage killing off nasty DDoS attack vector
Server fleet open to NTP attack drops from 400k to just 17,000 Sysadmins rejoice! NSFOCUS researchers say hundreds of thousands of Network Time Protocol (NTP) servers have been patched, reducing the threat from some devastating and cheap distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.…
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Sysadmins rejoice! Patch rampage killing off nasty DDoS attack vector
Got a botnet? Thinking of using it to mine Bitcoin? Don’t bother
McAfee says crooks will be better off sticking to spam and DDoS Despite an increase in popularity over recent months amongst botnet operators, malware-powered Bitcoin mining brings little to no financial return, say experts.…
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WiFi WarKitteh and DDoS Dog to stalk DEF CON 22
Pets make purrrfect pawns for surreptitious signal slurping A security boffin has created a ‘WarKitteh’ capable of sniffing WiFi packets.…
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‘Most sophisticated DDoS’ ever strikes Hong Kong democracy poll
Cloudflare claims tip-off allowed it to tip traffic into sinkholes One of the largest and most sophisticated distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks has hit a controversial online democracy poll canvassing opinion on future Hong Kong elections.…
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‘Most sophisticated DDoS’ ever strikes Hong Kong democracy poll
YOU’RE HISTORY: Ancestry.com goes titsup for TWO DAYS
Did dads storm site on Father’s Day? Some seem to think so The genealogy site Ancestry.com has been blasted off the internet after reportedly being hit by a DDoS attack.…
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Entirely new trojan quietly wheeled into black hat forums
Pandemiya is 25,000 lines of original password-pinching botnet badassery An RSA researcher claims to have found an entirely new trojan during his trawls of the criminal underground.…
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‘Anons’ cuffed by Australian Federal Police
Two arrested for attacks on Indonesian and Australian websites The Australian Federal Police (AFP) claim to have arrested two chaps who conducted defacement and denial of service attacks on Indonesian and Australian government websites while using the name and iconography of Anonymous.…
Boffins pen ‘Guide to better spamming’
Small, widely-dispersed botnets ought to do the trick Ignoring the manual and keeping your ‘bot nimble are some of the tips a quartet of security researchers have recommended to help spam reach inboxes more effectively.…
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Innocent surfers drafted into ZOMBIE ARMY by sneaky XSS vuln
Javascript snafu turned 22,000 bods into unwitting DDoSers Visitors to a video distribution website were unwittingly turned into participants in a hacker’s DDoS battle against a third-party site earlier this month.…
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