Crooks can thrive by ‘living off the land’ rather than forging elaborate schemes Half of all breaches Dell’s SecureWorks outfit has responded to over the last year have been a result of attackers using legitimate admin tools and stolen credentials.…
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‘I will do 19 years’ attacker says in garbled English – perhaps accidentally right A teenager from Brazil has claimed responsibility for a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on Essex Police’s website, following a similar attack on another force earlier this week.…
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Bored Brazilian skiddie claims DDoS against Essex Police
No workaround, so it’s ‘patch or chuck it in the bin’ Cisco has patched a denial of service vulnerability in its unified computing platform.…
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Borg bashes destabilising DoS bug in USC kit
No workaround, so it’s ‘patch or chuck it in the bin’ Cisco has patched a denial of service vulnerability in its unified computing platform.…
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Borg bashes destabilising DoS bug in UCS kit
Outage domino effect as network’s customers’ customers also hit Web hosting provider Servint has been hit by a network outage, reportedly due to a DDoS attack.…
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Web hosting biz Servint hit by network-toppling DDoS attack
‘There will be more attacks today,’ attacker proudly tells El Reg The website for Greater Manchester Police was targeted by two Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks yesterday, which rendered the site unavailable for more than two hours. The operators of two Twitter accounts have claimed responsibility.…
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Greater Manchester plod site targeted by nuisance DDoS attack
There’s no skill in this, agency sneers The National Crime Agency’s website has been hit by a DDoS attack, in an apparent act of revenge for the body’s recent crackdown on users of Lizard Squad.…
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NCA targeted by Lizard Squad in apparent DDoS revenge attack
Officers also visiting 50 addresses for a quiet word The National Crime Agency has arrested six users of a Lizard Squad DDoS attack tool, which had been used against a national newspaper, a school, gaming companies, and a number of online retailers.…
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NCA arrests six Lizard Squad users after gaming firms, retailers targetted
Officers also visiting 50 addresses for a quiet word The National Crime Agency has arrested six users of a Lizard Squad DDoS attack tool, which had been used against a national newspaper, a school, gaming companies, and a number of online retailers.…
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NCA arrests six Lizard Squad users after gaming firms, retailers targeted
Perp known as ‘DD4BC’ has some serious heat on his or her tail, with worse to come A group of security boffins have joined police and intelligence spooks in a clandestine mission to identify those behind distributed denial of service (DDoS) extortion attacks against major banks.…
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Spooks, plod and security industry join to chase bank hacker