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If there’s somethin’ strange in your network ‘hood. Who y’gonna call? Google’s DDoS-busters

Project Shield guards activists, charities from web storms Google will shelter charities and activists from distributed denial-of-service attacks by wrapping their websites in its protection technologies.…

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If there’s somethin’ strange in your network ‘hood. Who y’gonna call? Google’s DDoS-busters

‘Quarter’ of TWO-MILLION-strong zombie PC army lured to their deaths

Pied piper Symantec says it led infected computers into sinkhole Symantec has claimed credit for luring a significant lump of the powerful ZeroAccess botnet into a sinkhole.…

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‘Quarter’ of TWO-MILLION-strong zombie PC army lured to their deaths

London schoolboy cuffed for BIGGEST DDOS ATTACK IN HISTORY

Bet his parents wish he’d been playing computer games A British police investigation into the massive DDoS attack against internet watchdog Spamhaus has led to the arrest of a 16-year-old London schoolboy who, it is claimed, is part of an international gang of cyber-crooks.…

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Malware culprit fingered in mysterious Tor traffic spike

Spammy botnet got sneaky Security researchers believe they have identified the botnet responsible for a recent spike in traffic on the anonymizing Tor network, but the exact purpose of the malware remains unclear.…

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Android malware spotting hitching a ride on mobile botnet

Obad boy enlists an ally for Google spam splurge Kaspersky Lab has reported the first sighting of mobile malware (Android, of course) that piggybacks on the back of a separate mobile botnet and uses the resources of other malware once it’s installed.…

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Android malware spotting hitching a ride on mobile botnet

Android malware spotted hitching a ride on mobile botnet

Obad boy enlists an ally for Google spam splurge Kaspersky Lab has reported the first sighting of mobile malware (Android, of course) that piggybacks on the back of a separate mobile botnet and uses the resources of other malware once it’s installed.…

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Android malware spotted hitching a ride on mobile botnet

Tor traffic torrent: It ain’t the Syrians, it’s the BOTS

‘No humans are behind these clients’ The recent spike in traffic on the Tor anonymizing relay network is probably due to botnet activity rather than any recent political developments, research by Tor Project members has concluded.…

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Tor traffic torrent: It ain’t the Syrians, it’s the BOTS

Chinese authorities say massive DDoS attack took down .cn domain

Middle Kingdom pledges immediate action The China Internet Network Information Center (CINIC) has reported that on Sunday it suffered the largest ever DDoS attack it has ever experienced against the .cn domain, an assault that took ten hours to knock down.…

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Chinese authorities say massive DDoS attack took down .cn domain

Bank man: System’s down, let’s have coffee. Oh SNAP, where’s all the CASH?

Hackers use DDoSes to distract staffers… while nicking MILLIONS Cybercrooks are running distributed denial of service attacks as a smokescreen to distract bank security staff while they plunder online banking systems, according to a researcher.…

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Bank man: System’s down, let’s have coffee. Oh SNAP, where’s all the CASH?

GitHub code repository rocked by ‘very large DDoS’ attack

Second attack this month sees hackers git GitHub San Francisco–based GitHub, the online repository popular among software developers, suffered a major service outage on Thursday morning due to what it characterizes as a “very large DDoS attack.”… Learn how to leverage change for better IT And win a top of the range HP Spectre Ultrabook courtesy of HP and The Register! Click here to enter!

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