@DadSecurity creep responsible for DDoS… and swatting? Mumsnet founder Justine Roberts and another user were both targeted in swatting attacks at the apex of a series of hack attacks that may have led to the compromise of user logins at the high-profile, UK-based parenting site.…
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Mumsnet founder ‘swatted by misogynist griefers’
A million low end, pirate boxes still spewing malware relic. Three Dutch researchers have crunched data gleaned from efforts to battle the Conficker bot and declared anti-botnet initiatives all but useless for clean up efforts.…
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Anti-botnet initiatives USELESS in sea of patch-hating pirates
Malformed .MOV files can murder your movies Two Borg assimilators have discovered five denial of service vulnerabilities in Apple’s QuickTime.…
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Use QuickTime … and become part of the collective
El Reg and NewsThump also briefly vanished into the abyss Large chunks of the intertubes, including popular programmers’ hangout Stack Overflow, were blanked from view earlier this afternoon after a hiccup at cloud hosting and DDoS mitigation outfit Cloudflare.…
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Cloudflare hiccup nudges Stack Overflow and others offline
Crims aim to cause just enough chaos to get in and out Hackers reportedly swamped Carphone Warehouse with junk traffic as a smokescreen, before breaking into systems and stealing the personal details of 2.4m customers .…
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Hackers hid Carphone Warehouse breach with DDoS smokescreen – report
Unknowing proxies help zombie army lurch forward Cyber-crooks behind the Bunitu botnet are selling access to infected proxy bots as a way to cash in from their network.…
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Bunitu botnet crooks sell your unencrypted VPN traffic for £££
Bad packets cause crashes. Cisco has closed a hole in its ASR 1000 line of enterprise and service provider-grade routers that could trigger denial of service.…
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Borg patches enterprise ASR router DoS hole
Easy to hack universal remote BIND DoS hole leaves DNS open to attack Gird your loins internet: Attackers now have the ability to disrupt large swathes of the web through a remote denial of service vulnerability found in the most widely used software for DNS servers.…
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Critical BIND bug scores PATCH YESTERDAY grading
When is a door not a door? When slapdash coding turns it into a glorified ‘off’ switch Internet Igors have stitched together a new Linux backdoor. Fortunately for internet hygiene the botnet agent – which packs a variety of powerful features – is faulty and only partially functional.…
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Unhinged Linux backdoor still poses a nuisance, if not a threat
And as for botnets … on their way out A new research report from the Global Commission on Internet Governance has reached a surprising conclusion: cyberspace is actually getting safer.…
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Cyber-security’s dirty little secret: It’s not as bad as you think