Junk traffic mostly floods in from botnets DDoS traffic has more than trebled since the start of 2013, according to a new study released on Thursday that fingers zombie networks as the primary source of junk traffic that can be used to flood websites.…
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When ZOMBIES attack: DDoS traffic triples as 20Gbps becomes the new normal
Well, it’s statistically reasonably likely. Just update to 3.8.1, OK? Tens of thousands of vulnerable WordPress sites have been co-opted into a server-based botnet being used to run DDoS attacks.…
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MUM’s WordPress recipe blog USED AS ZOMBIE in DDoS attacks
Report in Japan says ‘150,000 hits per second’ A Japanese newspaper is reporting that during the spectacular collapse of the Mt Gox Bitcoin exchange, the operation’s servers were also suffering a large-scale DDOS attack.…
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Mt Gox fielded MASSIVE DDOS attack before collapse
Everything from DoS to device access Cisco has issued patches and mitigation instructions for 16 of its wireless products, to take care of a number of denial of service vulnerabilities and one unauthorised access vulnerability.…
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Cisco patches enterprise wireless vulns
$300 or the trendy website gets it … and the website got it Meetup.com has gone public with one of the most paltry ransom demands The Register has seen – but rather than pay up to end a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, the klatch organizer instead put up with its site being repeatedly hosed offline, we’re told.…
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Miscreant menaces Meetup, minuscule money mania mashed
Your medical files are worth big bucks to fraudsters RSA 2014 The low levels of security in healthcare IT systems, and the high value of its data, is going to make the sector the next big target for scammers, according to the Microsoft-backed team that takes down botnets.…
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Crap hospital databases next goldmine for cyber-crooks, say Microsoft’s botnet slayers
Password-lifting network converted to cryptocoin-thievery Another $US200,000-plus worth of Bitcoins has been lifted, according to Trustwave, which has identified a new Pony botnet targeting crypto-currencies.…
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Pony up: Botnet succesfully targets Bitcoin
Researcher allegedly blocked after he went public A security consultant who works for Telefonica has turned up a bug in how Snapchat handles authentication tokens, which enables a denial-of-service attack against users’ phones.…
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Snapchat bug lets hackers aim DENIAL of SERVICE attacks at YOUR MOBE
JTRIG active intelligence unit boasts of bugging and burgling At the start of this week, documents released by whistleblower Edward Snowden detailed DDOS attacks on chatrooms by a British online intelligence unit dubbed the Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group (JTRIG). Now he has released a new trove showing that JTRIG is about much more than purely online annoyances.…
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Snowden documents show British digital spies using viruses and ‘honey traps’
Scheiße! Überprüfen Sie Ihre Angaben in neuen Datenbank Officials in Germany have warned that large networks of hijacked, hacker-controlled PCs – aka botnets – have harvested 16 million email address and password combinations for websites and other online services.…
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Botnet PC armies gulp down 16 MILLION logins from around the web: Find out if you’re a victim