‘Watch Dogs’ players targeted for access to their juicy GPUs Tens of thousands of pirate gamers have been enslaved in a BitCoin botnet after downloading a leaked copy of popular game Watch Dogs.…
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Tens of thousands of pirate gamers enslaved by Bitcoin botnet
Watch Dogs players targeted for access to their juicy GPUs Tens of thousands of pirate gamers have been enslaved in a Bitcoin botnet after downloading a cracked copy of popular game Watch Dogs .…
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Tens of thousands of Watch Dogs pirates ENSLAVED by Bitcoin botmaster
Keylogging botnet Nemanja is coming to a small biz near you More than a thousand point-of-sale, grocery management and accounting systems worldwide have been compromised by a new strain of malware, results of a March 2014 probe have revealed.…
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Swiping your card at local greengrocers? Miscreants will swipe YOU in a minute
Two arrested for attacks on Indonesian and Australian websites The Australian Federal Police (AFP) claim to have arrested two chaps who conducted defacement and denial of service attacks on Indonesian and Australian government websites while using the name and iconography of Anonymous.…
DNS flood washes over company servers Domain hosts Point DNS has been hammered with a high intensity DDoS attack on Friday, knocking servers out for hours.…
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Point DNS blitzed by mystery DDoS assault
Here's an overview of some of last week's most interesting news, reviews and articles: XSS bug in popular Chinese site exploited to launch DDoS attack DDoS mitigation firm Incapsula has put a st…
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Week in review: IE 0-day patched, Windows XP gets unexpected update, and tips on how to learn information security
Small, widely-dispersed botnets ought to do the trick Ignoring the manual and keeping your ‘bot nimble are some of the tips a quartet of security researchers have recommended to help spam reach inboxes more effectively.…
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Boffins pen ‘Guide to better spamming’
Javascript snafu turned 22,000 bods into unwitting DDoSers Visitors to a video distribution website were unwittingly turned into participants in a hacker’s DDoS battle against a third-party site earlier this month.…
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Innocent surfers drafted into ZOMBIE ARMY by sneaky XSS vuln
DDoS attacks are now more unpredictable and damaging than ever, crippling websites, shutting down operations, and costing millions of dollars in downtime, customer support and brand damage, according …
In this interview, Jag Bains, CTO of DOSarrest, talks about various types of DDoS attacks and why a cloud-based solution is a good fit for most organizations. Despite being an old threat, DDoS atta…
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Blocking DDoS attacks with a cloud-based solution