2012
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New Bank Attacks Expected Today?
Is another wave of distributed denial of service attacks imminent? For the past two weeks, DDoS attacks that caused online outages at several major U.S. banks started on…
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DDoS attacks reach new level of sophistication
Prolexic Technologies warned of an escalating threat from unusually large and highly sophisticated DDoS attacks. The DDoS attacks have been launched in the last week using the so-called…
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Major U.S. banks still under DDoS attack
PNC Bank seems to be the latest target of the organized DDoS attacks agains major U.S. financial institutions such as JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Citigroup,…
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How to prevent a botnet infection?
The research team at e-mail security provider Eleven, published five tips today to help users prevent a botnet infection on their computer. Botnets are groups of hijacked private…
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Bank Of America Website Slows After Islamic Hacker Threats
Bank of America’s website experienced periodic outages Tuesday, possibly due to cyber attacks launched in retaliation for “Innocence of Muslims,” the amateurish film whose mocking portrait of the…
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Lucrative ZeroAccess botnet enslaves one million active computers
The ZeroAccess rootkit has been around for quite some time now, spying on infected users, hiding from installed AV solutions and attempting to terminate them, redirecting users' online…
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Deconstructing hacktivist operations and tools
Imperva released its September Hacker Intelligence report, which details the latest methods deployed by hackers to execute DDoS attacks by analyzing the technical tools and trends employed during…
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Pushdo botnet’s smokescreen traffic hits legitimate websites
Aargh, cap’n, the server be like to founder Cybercrooks behind the resilient Pushdo botnet are bombarding legitimate small websites with bogus traffic in order to camouflage requests to…