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Brit behind Titanium Stresser DDoS malware sent to chokey

20-year-old Herts man slapped with two years’ stripey suntan time A Hertfordshire man has been jailed for two years after netting nearly £400,000 from the malware he wrote as a 15-year-old student.…

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Brit behind Titanium Stresser DDoS malware sent to chokey

Flaws found in Linksys routers that could be used to create a botnet

Engineers working on firmware updates Multiple models of Linksys Smart Wi-Fi Routers have vulnerabilities that might be exploited to create a botnet, security researchers at IOActive warn.…

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Flaws found in Linksys routers that could be used to create a botnet

Web smut seekers take resurgent Ramnit malware from behind

? Botnet knocked down, but it gets up again ? Aficionados of salacious smut sites in the UK and Canada are picking up some nasty software that infects systems by using corrupted pop-under adverts.…

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Web smut seekers take resurgent Ramnit malware from behind

Oops! 185,000-plus Wi-Fi cameras on the web with insecure admin panels

Just unplug them now before someone writes a botnet, okay? Get ready for the next camera-botnet: a Chinese generic wireless webcam sold under more than 1,200 brands from 354 vendors has a buggy and exploitable embedded web server.…

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Oops! 185,000-plus Wi-Fi cameras on the web with insecure admin panels

Google mistakes the entire NHS for massive cyber-attacking botnet

Hospitals advised to use Bing instead Exclusive   Google is blocking access to the entire NHS network, mistaking the amount of traffic it is currently receiving as a cyber attack.…

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Google mistakes the entire NHS for massive cyber-attacking botnet

Furby Rickroll demo: what fresh hell is this?

Toy-makers, please quit this rubbish, you’re NO GOOD at security Here’s your future botnet, world: connected kids toys that will Rickroll their owners while hosing big servers and guessing the nuclear codes.…

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Furby Rickroll demo: what fresh hell is this?

‘Beeeellion-dollar’ mastercrooks in hotel, restaurant blitzkrieg

Carbanak: It’s not just a caramel-flavoured choc-trocity. It’s also malware The Carbanak cyber criminal gang is abusing Google’s infrastructure as a conduit for botnet control.…

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‘Beeeellion-dollar’ mastercrooks in hotel, restaurant blitzkrieg

Crims shut off Ukraine power in wide-ranging anniversary hacks

Phishing, denial of service, and remote exploitation part of hacking banquet Hackers of unknown origin cut power supplies in Ukraine for a second time in 12 months as part of wide-ranging attacks that hit the country in December.…

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Crims shut off Ukraine power in wide-ranging anniversary hacks

DDoS in 2017: Strap yourself in for a bumpy ride

2016 sucked. 2017 won’t be much better, sorry DDoS attacks have been around since at least 2000, and they’re not going away. In fact, as the number of devices online grows, the volume and velocity of these attacks is also increasing.…

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DDoS in 2017: Strap yourself in for a bumpy ride

DDoS script kiddies are also… actual kiddies, Europol arrests reveal

Young ‘uns hire tools to hit infrastructure, info systems Law enforcement bods at Europol have arrested 34 users of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) cyber-attack tools and interviewed and cautioned 101 suspects in a global crackdown.…

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DDoS script kiddies are also… actual kiddies, Europol arrests reveal