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Holy cow! Fasthosts outage blamed on DDoS hack attack AND Windows 2003 vuln

Monday, bloody Monday Fasthosts’ five-hour collapse today has been blamed on a Distributed Denial of Service attack and a security flaw spotted on its Windows 2003 shared web server kit.…

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Holy cow! Fasthosts outage blamed on DDoS hack attack AND Windows 2003 vuln

Apple tries to kill iWorm: Zombie botnet feasting on Mac brains

Updates XProtect Apple has updated its XProtect anti-malware system to squash several variants of the iWorm before the malware causes any further damage.…

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Apple tries to kill iWorm: Zombie botnet feasting on Mac brains

YOU’RE HISTORY: Ancestry.com goes titsup for TWO DAYS

Did dads storm site on Father’s Day? Some seem to think so The genealogy site Ancestry.com has been blasted off the internet after reportedly being hit by a DDoS attack.…

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YOU’RE HISTORY: Ancestry.com goes titsup for TWO DAYS