‘All you need is 10 lines of code and a lot of patience’ Hackers are increasingly turning to DNS reflection to amplify the volume of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.…
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Spamhaus-style DDoS attacks: All the hackers are doing it
The undead are coming, and they have 1Gbps pipes! A critical vulnerability in trendy web programming kit Ruby on Rails is being abused to conscript hacked website servers into a growing botnet army.…
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Ruby on Fails: Zombie SERVER army built thanks to Rails bug
Dutch suspect snatched in Spain The Dutch police have confirmed the arrest of man suspected of taking part in a massive DDoS attack against the anti-spam group Spamhaus back in March.…
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Police arrest suspect in BIGGEST DDoS ATTACK IN HISTORY
Crooks blasting public-safety phone lines with calls The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has cautioned public-safety call centers against the rise of so-called telephony denial of service (TDoS) attacks, which it says have the potential to cripple local telephone exchanges.…
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Call centers under attack in targeted cyber-blackmail scheme
Potentially risks thousands of years in jail An anonymous researcher has taken an unorthodox approach to achieve the dream of mapping out the entire remaining IPv4 internet – and in doing so broken enough laws around the world to potentially put him or her behind bars for thousands of years.…
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Researcher sets up illegal 420,000 node botnet for IPv4 internet map
Click fraudster bot fingered after analysts crack its signature A web analytics firm has sniffed out a botnet that was raking in $6m a month from online advertisers.…
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Chameleon botnet grabbed $6m A MONTH from online ad-slingers
21-year-old could face five years in a Hong Kong slammer Hong Kong police have arrested a 21-year-old man after he apparently bragged on Facebook of his intent to disrupt several government web sites.…
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Alleged Anon arrested for planning gov DDoS attacks