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Google punts freebie DDoS shield to hacks, human rights worthies

Reverse proxying traffic might save headaches Google has launched a free service to protect news websites against DDoS attacks.…

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Mystery hacker pwns Dridex Trojan botnet… to serve antivirus installer

Ah, great. Ave AV Part of the distribution channel of the Dridex banking Trojan botnet may have been hacked, with malicious links replaced by installers for Avira Antivirus.…

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Mystery hacker hijacks Dridex Trojan botnet… to serve antivirus installer

Ah, great. Ave AV Part of the distribution channel of the Dridex banking Trojan botnet may have been hacked, with malicious links replaced by installers for Avira Antivirus.…

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Mystery hacker hijacks Dridex Trojan botnet… to serve antivirus installer

Bad luck, Ireland: DDoS attack disrupts isle’s National Lottery

Attack KO’d the website and ticket machines A DDoS attack disrupted the Irish National Lottery’s website and ticket machines on Wednesday (January 20).…

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Bad luck, Ireland: DDoS attack disrupts isle’s National Lottery

Cybercops cuff two in hunt for DDoS extortion masterminds

Zombie master suspects tracked to Bosnia An international police investigation against the DD4BC DDoS extortion gang has led to one suspect being arrested and one detained, Europol said on Tuesday.…

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Security sweep firm links botnet infestation and file sharing

Public sector apparently suffers most from idle P2Pers Updated   There’s high degree of correlation between organisations with P2P activity and system compromises via malware infections, according to a new study by BitSight Technologies.…

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‘Phantom’ menace threatens to down Xbox Live, PSN at Xmas

Hackers reveal plans to make children cry Last Christmas LizardSquad played Grinch with the holiday fun of gamers by knocking out XBox Live and smacking the PlayStation Network offline with a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack.…

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Patch NOW: VMware vCenter, ESXi can be pwned via your network

Remote-code execution danger on VM hosts VMware is urging users of its vCenter Server and ESXi software to install its latest patches to plug vulnerabilities that can allow remote-code execution and denial of service.…

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Patch NOW: VMware vCenter, ESXi can be pwned via your network