2012
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DDoS crooks: Do you want us to blitz those phone lines too?
Miscreants offer to down mobe and fixed line services for $20 a day Cybercrooks are now offering to launch cyberattacks against telecom services, with prices starting at just…
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Five Ways to Protect Against Distributed Denial of Service ‘DDoS’ attacks
Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are able to take out an entire site in a matter of minutes. Firewalls and traditional tools like intrusion detection and prevention…
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Bot herders try to resurrect Grum, fail
As you have probably already heard, the Grum botnet – formerly the third largest in the world – has been effectively shut down last week after several security…
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Week in review: Grum botnet shutdown, Android malware, and Madi Trojan targeting the Middle East
Here's an overview of some of last week's most interesting news, articles and reviews: How to make smart grids To prepare for a successful roll-out of smart grids,…
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Huge spam botnet is taken down
A huge botnet responsible for around 18% of the world’s spam is forced offline, a security firm says.
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Real-time IP address blocking of DDoS attacks
Corero Network Security is extending its capabilities with the launch of ReputationWatch. It will identify in real-time known malicious entities and block access to ‘bad’ IP addresses ‘on-the-fly’…
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How To Select A Distributed Denial of Service ‘DDoS’ Mitigation Service
Late last month, two members of the hacker group LulzSec pleaded guilty to launching distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against entities ranging from the state of Arizona to Nintendo…
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Waring: Hackers can break into your Cisco TelePresence sessions, One of the Methods through Distributed Denial of Service ‘DDoS’ attack
If you rely on Cisco TelePresence products for sensive business communications, you might want to stop what you are doing and pay attention to a new warning that…
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Distributed Denial of Service ‘DDoS’ attack on Online websites
As more enterprises push services online, IT executives should be wary of the legal risks which could occur if they are subject to a distributed denial of service…