2013
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ZeroAccess developers continue to innovate
A while ago a group of researchers has analyzed and tested the resilience of P2P botnets, and has discovered that while Zeus and Sality botnets are highly resilient…
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Bank man: System’s down, let’s have coffee. Oh SNAP, where’s all the CASH?
Hackers use DDoSes to distract staffers… while nicking MILLIONS Cybercrooks are running distributed denial of service attacks as a smokescreen to distract bank security staff while they plunder…
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DDoS Attacks Strike Three Banks
Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Cyber Fighters’ so-called Phase 4 of distributed-denial-of-service attacks against major U.S. banks hasn’t stalled, it’s just been ineffective at disrupting online availability, security experts say…
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DOSarrest begins Offering Vulnerability Testing and Optimization
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA–(Marketwired – Aug. 14, 2013) – DOSarrest Internet Security announced today that it will begin offering a website Vulnerability Testing and Optimization ( VTO ) service.…
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UCAS under DDoS attack
Ucas has been the victim of a hacking attempt, when its website was the target of a denial of service attack. The site was unavailable late on 14…
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GitHub code repository rocked by ‘very large DDoS’ attack
Second attack this month sees hackers git GitHub San Francisco–based GitHub, the online repository popular among software developers, suffered a major service outage on Thursday morning due to…
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Police nab alleged DDoS extortion gang at Heathrow Airport
Two Polish men were arrested at Heathrow Airport earlier this week in connection with an alleged DDoS extortion attack on a Manchester-based business, news sources have reported. Details…
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Analysis: Who’s Really Behind DDoS?
Now that Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Cyber Fighters has launched its fourth phase of distributed-denial-of-service attacks against U.S. banks, many observers are continuing to ask: Who’s behind this group,…
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5 Steps to Prepare for a DDOS Attack
As more people are realizing that in today’s cyber climate Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are a matter of when, not if, the most common question I…
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ZeroAcces rootkit dominates, adds new persistence techniques
According to a recent report by Alcatel-Lucent subsidiary Kindsight, as much as 10 percent of home networks and over 0.5 percent of mobile devices are infected with malware,…