Funny how it always gets targeted at the end of term… Blighty’s government-funded educational network Janet has once again been hit by a cyber attack, with a fresh wave of DDoS attacks launched against the network this morning.…
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Academic network Janet clobbered with DDoS attacks – again
Electronic Tribulation Army has anger management problems Oklahoma man Benjamin Earnest Nichols faces up to 10 years jail in a United States federal prison and a US$250,000 fine after pleading guilty to launching a distributed denial of service attack against security consultancy mccrewsecurity.com .…
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News sites bork-bork-borked for spreading ‘false propaganda’ News outlets in Sweden went dark over the weekend in the face of a large-scale distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack.…
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Swedish sysadmins reach for the hex key, reassemble services after weekend DDoS
CryptoWall most prevalent nasty – survey File-encrypting ransomware has eclipsed botnets to become the main threat to enterprises, according to Trend Micro.…
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Cyber-crooks now prefer ransomware to botnets. Yep, firms are paying up
Akamai report finds surge in weighty packets. The number of distributed denial of service attacks rose 149 percent in dying months of 2015 according to Akamai’s networking wonks.…
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DDoS attacks up 149 percent as brassy booter kids make bank
Researcher who found the flaws will reveal crim-friendly details in three weeks Palo Alto Networks has revealed four new nasties, one of which can allow remote code execution and DDOS attacks on its boxen, and given users until March 16th to patch them.…
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Palo Alto reveals critical bugs and March 16th patch deadline
Some in the IEEE reckon it’d be a good idea, before your toaster burns more than bread The Internet toaster that’s browning your crumpets, talking to its home servers, and participating in a ransomware-distributing botnet should get the kind of cyber-safety testing that it gets for physical safety.…
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Does the Internet of Things need an indie security assessor?
Oh no – not again! Updated HSBC customers were once again locked out of online banking this morning, following an apparent DDoS attack on the bank.…
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HSBC online services still offline following ‘attack’ on bank
Booter blasters belt businesses. The world’s largest distributed denial of service attack has been clocked at 500Gbps, according to Arbor Networks.…
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500Gbps DDoS attack flattens world record
Could it be bots that fall for for those ‘One Weird Trick’ ads? Here’s hoping! Botnets will inflict a massive US$7.2 billion in damages against online advertisers this year according to research by ad security company White Ops.…
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