Dedicated appliances for protection against DDoS

Fortinet introduced the FortiDDoS product family for enterprises, Web hosting and cloud service providers. The new FortiDDoS-100A, FortiDDoS-200A and FortiDDoS-300A are dedicated appliances that a…

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Dedicated appliances for protection against DDoS

Number-munching clouds are godsend for cybercrooks – experts

Perfect platform for password forcing, DDoS attacks Cloud computing providers came under fire today from security experts who blamed them for giving cyber-criminals the tools to launch attacks more easily, efficiently and anonymously than ever before.…

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Number-munching clouds are godsend for cybercrooks – experts

Flashback botnet decline not as fast as expected

Given the attention that the Flashback Mac malware has received since the discovery of the 600K strong botnet of computers infected with it and the number of tools that various security firms and App…

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Flashback botnet decline not as fast as expected

Behind the scenes of the cleanest ISP in the world

The malware and botnet problem has been around for quite a while, and definitive solutions for it are still eluding the Internet and mobile communication industry, as well as the security industry. …

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Behind the scenes of the cleanest ISP in the world

600K strong Flashback botnet comprises mostly Macs

There has been a lot of talk and speculation about the size of the botnet formed by computers targeted with the Flashback malware and whether all these machines were, in fact, all Macs. The botne…

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600K strong Flashback botnet comprises mostly Macs

Microsoft takedown of Zeus botnets missed a few C&Cs

When Microsoft, the financial services industry and Kyrus Tech teamed up to sinkhole a number of worldwide botnets using the Zeus family of malware, they managed to get the court's permission to seize…

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Microsoft takedown of Zeus botnets missed a few C&Cs