Internet of Things security scares already need to take a chill pill It’s still silly season, it seems. Tell the world that a bunch of small business broadband routers have been compromised and recruited into botnets, and the world yawns.…
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SPAM supposedly spotted leaving the fridge
1775Sec: Um, we were trolling for, er, Aaron Swartz… Pranksters latched onto an outage at Dropbox on Friday to push false rumours of a politically motivated hack.…
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Dropbox outage was caused by ‘buggy’ upgrade: DDoS us? You hardly know us…
OK, who hates fun? Valve’s online gaming platform Steam and Electronic Arts’ Origin were hit by separate DDoS attacks over the weekend.…
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Steam and Origin gamers knocked offline by SEPARATE DDoS attacks
Butterfly flapped its wings and caused internet hurricane A Slovenian virus writer who created an infamous strain of malware used to infect an estimated 12 million computers worldwide has been jailed for almost five years.…
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Slovenian jailed for creating code behind 12 MILLION strong ‘Mariposa’ botnet army
Reports claim revenge attack after digi-currency restrictions Angry Bitcoin users are suspected of DDoS-ing the website of China’s central bank following tough new restrictions it levied this week which appear to have forced the world’s biggest Bitcoin exchange into meltdown.…
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China’s central bank hit by DDoS after Bitcoin blitz
Best hope you weren’t messaging your bank manager Security researchers have discovered an Android botnet that masquerades as a benign settings app for carrying out administrative tasks on mobile devices.…
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Android nasty sends your texts to CHINA
Install fake Microsoft extra, become SQL-squirting zombie Cybercrooks have brewed up a botnet that uses a bogus Firefox add-on to scan the web for hackable websites.…
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Bogus Firefox add-on FORCES WITLESS USERS to join vuln-hunting party
Just don’t bork our crim-busting honeypots again Microsoft has teamed up with the FBI to launch a renewed attempt to disrupt the operations of the infamous ZeroAccess botnet.…
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Microsoft teams up with Feds, Europol in ZeroAccess botnet zombie hunt
Low Orbit Ion Cannon claims another victim A Wisconsin man has been sentenced to two years of probation and a fine of $183,000 after pleading guilty to taking part in an Anonymous DDoS attack against the servers of Koch Industries for one minute.…
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One-minute Koch-blocking attack earns attacker two years, massive fine
Low Orbit Ion Cannon claims another victim A Wisconsin man has been sentenced to two years of probation and a fine of $183,000 after pleading guilty to taking part in an Anonymous DDoS attack against the servers of Koch Industries for one minute.…
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One-minute Koch-blocking earns attacker two years, massive fine