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’
SOHOpeless CCTVs and video recorders It shouldn’t surprise anyone that closed circuit television (CCTV) rigs are becoming the world’s favourite botnet hosts: pretty much any time a security researcher looks at a camera, it turns out to be a buggy mess.…
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Hungarian bug-hunters spot 130,000 vulnerable Avtech vid systems on Shodan
Do try this at home – but carefully The SANS Institute is hoping sysadmins can help it to do what vendors won’t: improve Internet of Things security.…
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SANS issues call to arms to battle IoT botnets
Akamai CSO laments pisspoor security design practices Internet of Things devices are starting to pose a real threat to security for the sensible part of the web, Akamai’s chief security officer Andy Ellis has told The Register .…
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Bureau of Stats says spooks signed off IBM’s plan, but Big Blue mucked something up Australia’s Bureau of Statistics has heavily criticised IBM for the security it applied to the nation’s failed online census, which was taken offline after a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that battered a curiously flimsy defensive shield.…
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IBM botched geo-block designed to save Australia’s census
Nowhere near as bad as its ten-day Christmas cracker, but something seems to be afoot Cloud hosting outfit Linode has again come under significant denial of service (DoS) attack.…
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Linode fends off multiple DDOS attacks
Proof-of-work turned to nefarious purposes, like taking down a Census A curious proof-of-work project built on cryptocurrency has emerged that offers a means to prove participation in distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.…
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Nine vectors used as bad guys try to beat defenders. A chinese gambling company has been pulverised with multiple nine-vector, 470 Gbps, 110 million packet-per-second distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, some of the biggest and most complex ever recorded.…
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Chinese gambling site served near record-breaking complex DDoS
‘Tiny fraction of the overall count’ however A petition for a second EU referendum in the UK has been hit by suspicions of computer automated ballot stuffing, possibly by politically motivated hackers.…
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Botnet-powered ballot stuffing suspected in 2nd referendum petition
Better the devil you know as malware replaces Alphabet ads with less sanitary banners About a million computers have been enslaved into a newly-identified botnet that is plundering Google advertising revenues, a security trio says.…
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A million machines enslaved by MitM Google ad fraud botnet