2012
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White House unveils initiatives to combat botnets
The Obama administration on Wednesday revealed new initiatives to combat botnets, believed to present one of the greatest threats to the integrity of the internet. Botnets are employed…
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Man arrested for hacking into billing provider
The FBI has arrested hacker “Cosmo”, according to a report by Eduard Kovacs of Softpedia. Cosmo is alleged to be the leader of four-man hacktivist group UGNazi, which…
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DoS crashes updated iPads, iPhones
A denial of service attack has been disclosed in the latest version of Apple iOS. The attack targets Safari in iOS 5.1.1 and a proof of concept was…
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FBI Warns Companies of Anonymous DDoS Attacks
The Cyber Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation warned several large corporations of the potential for distributed denial of service (DDoS) and data exfiltration attacks scheduled for…
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US Firms Are Over-Reliant on Firewalls to Protect Against DDoS Attacks
By John E Dunn, techworld.com More than half of US businesses still rely on conventional firewalls or intrusion prevention systems to shield themselves from the scourge of DDoS…
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Check Point Survey Reveals More Than Half of Targeted Attacks Reported Were Driven by Financial Fraud
Denial of Service Attacks and Botnets Pose Increased Risk to Organizations, With Successful Attacks Costing Businesses Over $100,000 per Incident REDWOOD CITY, CA, May 22, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via…
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Armenia jails Bredolab botmaster for 4 years
First computer crime conviction in the former Soviet republic A cybercrook who established a 30 million computer strong botnet has been jailed for four years in Armenia .…
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123-Reg websites hit by attack
Businesses using 123-Reg’s web hosting service go offline after reports of a DDoS attack from China.
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Flashback botmasters earned less than $15K
It has already been established that the criminals behind the Flashback botnet were after money, but according to Symantec researchers, their plan was foiled by the attention that…