Infosec folk spot web of compromised British devices Hundreds of Mirai-infected home routers across the UK are currently acting as DDoS bots.…
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Mirai variant turns TalkTalk routers into zombie botnet agents
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It’s time: Patch Network Time Protocol before it loses track of time
Synchronise your watches before someone exploits DDOS bug, or nine other nasties The maintainers of the Network Time Protocol daemon (ntpd) have pushed out a patch for ten security vulnerabilities.…
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It’s time: Patch Network Time Protocol before it loses track of time
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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Bookmakers William Hill under siege from DDoS internet flood
Post-Mirai, HackForums kills off white hat DDoS rental service
Even hackers are worried about the Internet of S**t backlash The success of the Mirai botnet was apparently a shiver looking for a spine to run up: HackForums has killed off its “server stress test” DDoS-for-hire section.…
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Post-Mirai, HackForums kills off white hat DDoS rental service
Melbourne Cup is ‘top op for hacked camera DDoS extortionists’
Bet shops ready for old layer 3 stayers, less for IoT swoopers, says Akamai “The race that stops a nation” could also stop betting agencies if the regular barrage of timely distributed denial of service attack (DDoS) extortionists utilise insecure embedded devices, Akamai says.…
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Melbourne Cup is ‘top op for hacked camera DDoS extortionists’
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