2012
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Week in review: Malicious QR codes, Tor-powered botnet, and Mac users hit with SMS fraud
Here's an overview of some of last week's most interesting news, videos and articles: Motives behind IT budget spend and 2013 cloud trends A global survey of 550…
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Top 7 security predictions for 2013
A seismic shift in who controls the Internet? Another Mac malware outbreak? Your smart TV being highjacked for a DDoS attack? Whatever 2013 may bring, it’s sure to…
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To the Rescue: A Fully Managed Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Protection Solution
With its hosting DNA, DOSarrest understands the challenges of dealing with a distribute denial of service (DDoS) attack in a data center. We know, for example, that for…
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4 Banks Respond to Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Threats
The day after Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Cyber Fighters announced plans to launch a second wave of distributed-denial-of-service attacks on five U.S. banks, SunTrust suffered intermittent outages and Bank…
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Feds smash international cybercrime ring with Power of Facebook
Ad-men and G-men form potent globo force The FBI have said that with the help of Facebook, they’ve taken down an international crime gang who went on an…
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Researchers uncover Tor-powered Skynet botnet
Rapid7 researchers have recently unearthed an unusual piece of malware that turned out to be crucial to the formation of an elusive botnet – dubbed Skynet by the…
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U.K. hacker convicted for taking part in Anonymous attacks
22-year-old Christopher Weatherhead from Northampton, U.K., has been convicted on Thursday on one count of conspiracy to impair the operation of computers for his involvement in the DDoS…
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British student found guilty of Anonymous PayPal Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attacks
A British student has been convicted over his role in a series of denial of service attacks against PayPal, which cost the payment firm £3.5m. Christopher Weatherhead was…
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Gameover gang uses Cutwail botnet to swell its own
The hackers behind the Gameover variant of the popular Zeus banking Trojan have rented the massive Cutwail botnet in order to send out millions of fake emails carrying…