2014
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Infosecurity Europe: Are cybercriminals winning the security game?
One of the hot topics at the Infosecurity Europe show – held in London this week – is the scale and complexity of the latest attacks against corporates.…
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Boffins pen ‘Guide to better spamming’
Small, widely-dispersed botnets ought to do the trick Ignoring the manual and keeping your ‘bot nimble are some of the tips a quartet of security researchers have recommended…
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UltraDNS Dealing with DDoS Attack
UltraDNS said it has mitigated a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack for most of its customers after the service was held down for most of the day.…
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France Getting Battered By DDoS Attacks
France is seeing massive amounts of DDoS traffic going through its networks, thanks to sizeable hits on the country’s popular hosting providers As the UK enjoys a relatively…
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Spike in DDoS attack size driven by NTP misuse
The beginning of 2014 saw 1.5 times the number of attacks over 20GB/sec, compared to the rest of 2013, according to new stats released by Arbor Networks today.…
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How to abuse Facebook feature to conduct powerful DDoS attack
A researcher discovered a flaw in the section “notes” of the social network Facebook that could be exploited by anyone to conduct a powerful DDoS attack. The Security…
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Researcher reveals how Facebook Notes can be used to DDoS sites
A programmer has divulged how the Facebook Notes feature can be used to launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against websites. In a blog post this weekend, researcher Chaman…
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Innocent surfers drafted into ZOMBIE ARMY by sneaky XSS vuln
Javascript snafu turned 22,000 bods into unwitting DDoSers Visitors to a video distribution website were unwittingly turned into participants in a hacker’s DDoS battle against a third-party site…
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UK webhost 123-Reg in DDOS attack
Businesses using 123-Reg’s web hosting service were knocked offline on Wednesday evening following a reported distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. 123-Reg is the UK’s largest domain provider hosting over 1.4…
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DrDoS attacks to reach 800 Gbps in 2015
While the network time protocol (NTP) DrDoS threats that became prevalent in early 2014 have been contained, new distributed reflected denial of service threats will lead to attacks…