2013
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Researchers reveal tricks for Cutwail's endurance
While some botherders have opted for the arguably much safer P2P architecture in order to assure their botnets' resilience, others are still clinging to the standard distributed C&C…
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Protect Your Website: How to Fight DDoS Attacks
Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, a cyberattack that makes a specific resource unavailable to its intended user, are becoming more complex and sophisticated. Attackers don’t just carry…
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DDoS attacks: What they are and how to protect yourself
Ameen Pishdadi is the CTO at GigeNET. In this interview he discusses the various types of DDoS attacks, tells us who is at risk, tackles information gathering during…
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LinkedIn outage was due to DNS records misconfiguration
The mystery of the LinkedIn outage has been revealed: Network Solutions, its DNS provider, has been battered by a DDoS attack and while defending itself, misconfigured the DNS…
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LinkedIn DDoS response botched
More than half of Linkedin’s members were knocked off the service for an extended period yesterday following a botched response to a DDOS by service provider Network Solutions.…
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LulzSec Hacker Ryan Cleary To Be Released
Convicted LulzSec hacker Ryan Cleary, 21, is set to be released “imminently” after appearing Wednesday in a London courtroom for sentencing relating to charges that he made and…
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Researches test resilience of P2P botnets
Following increased efforts by a number of companies and organizations, the takedown on botnet C&C servers is now a pretty regular occurrence and cyber crooks have reacted by…
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Microsoft borks botnet takedown in Citadel snafu
Stupid Redmond kicked over our honeypots, wail white hats Security researchers are complaining about collateral damage from the latest botnet take-down efforts by Microsoft and its partners.…
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EU to vote on stiffer penalties for hackers
Member states of the European Union might soon be creating new laws that will raise minimum prison sentences for convicted cyber attackers and botnet herders. Last week, the…