Reverse proxying traffic might save headaches Google has launched a free service to protect news websites against DDoS attacks.…
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Google punts freebie DDoS shield to hacks, human rights worthies
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Palo Alto reveals critical bugs and March 16th patch deadline
Researcher who found the flaws will reveal crim-friendly details in three weeks Palo Alto Networks has revealed four new nasties, one of which can allow remote code execution and DDOS attacks on its boxen, and given users until March 16th to patch them.…
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Palo Alto reveals critical bugs and March 16th patch deadline
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 pwns Dridex Trojan botnet… to serve antivirus installer
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
HSBC online services still offline following ‘attack’ on bank
Oh no – not again! Updated HSBC customers were once again locked out of online banking this morning, following an apparent DDoS attack on the bank.…
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HSBC online services still offline following ‘attack’ on bank
Israeli academics claim they can predict botnet attacks
Isolated attacks can add up to concerted malbot action , say boffins Ben Gurion University researchers have developed a tool capable of predicting future botnet attacks while also distinguishing between human and automated campaigns.…
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500Gbps DDoS attack flattens world record
Booter blasters belt businesses. The world’s largest distributed denial of service attack has been clocked at 500Gbps, according to Arbor Networks.…
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500Gbps DDoS attack flattens world record
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
Boards.ie floored by DDoS assault
Irish forum goes away with the fairies for a while Productivity in the Emerald Isle may have peaked on Tuesday with an outage of popular forum boards.ie coming on top of Twitter’s TITSUP moment.…
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Boards.ie floored by DDoS assault
Microsoft: We’ve taken down the botnets. Europol: Would Sir like a kill switch, too?
It’s like pulling a smoking car off the road … hang on Last December, Microsoft intercepted traffic on users’ PCs and helped break up a botnet. And nobody complained. So the company very tentatively asked at a session on ethics and policy in Brussels this week whether it should do more.…
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Microsoft: We’ve taken down the botnets. Europol: Would Sir like a kill switch, too?