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Razer ponders how to fix installer that grants admin powers if you plug in a mouse

Plus: Cloudflare tackles huge DDoS attack, Apple and CSAM, and more In brief   Razer is said to be working on an updated installer after it was discovered you can gain admin privileges on Windows by plugging in one of the gaming gear maker’s mice or keyboards.…

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Silence of the WANs: FBI DDoS-for-hire greaseball takedowns slash web flood attacks ‘by 11%’

Fed bust of massive attack network caused traffic loads to plummet in Q4 The FBI’s takedown of a group of prolific DDoS-for-hire websites has single-handedly helped to drop attack levels globally.…

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Silence of the WANs: FBI DDoS-for-hire greaseball takedowns slash web flood attacks ‘by 11%’

Spammer scum hack 100,000 home routers via UPnP vulns to craft email-flinging botnet

Look out for traffic to and from these IP addresses and ports Once again, a hundred thousand or more home routers have been press-ganged into a spam-spewing botnet, this time via Universal Plug and Play (UPnP).…

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Some credential-stuffing botnets don’t care about being noticed any more

They just take a battering ram to the gates The bots spewing out malicious login attempts by the bucketload appear to have cranked it up a notch.…

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Some credential-stuffing botnets don’t care about being noticed any more

DraftKings rides to court, asks to unmask 10 DDoS suspects

Fantasy sports outfit looks to hunt down group that bombarded its site A US sports gaming company is asking permission to unmask 10 people it believes were behind a massive DDoS attack on its website earlier this month.…

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Pwn goal: Hackers used the username root, password root for botnet control database login

These are not the criminal geniuses you were expecting An IoT botnet has been commandeered by white hats after its controllers used a weak username and password combination for its command-and-control server.…

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Pwn goal: Hackers used the username root, password root for botnet control database login

Just a third of Brit cops are equipped to fight crime that is ‘cyber’

Bad news if you’ve been defrauded online Just one in three police forces in the UK are able to tackle cybercrime such as DDoS, malware attacks and online fraud, a Home Affairs Committee heard today.…

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Just a third of Brit cops are equipped to fight crime that is ‘cyber’

Starbucks site slurped, Z-Wave locks clocked, mad Mac Monero mining malware and much more

Some security bites for the long weekend Roundup   While this week was dominated by news of a new Spectre variant , the VPNFilter botnet , and TalkTalk’s badbad routersrouters , plenty of other stories popped up.…

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Starbucks site slurped, Z-Wave locks clocked, mad Mac Monero mining malware and much more