2014
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Emoticons blast three security holes in Pidgin đ
Dump docs on users’ disks using only ASCII art (°O°) Cisco researchers have reported a trio of vulnerabilities in popular instant messaging client Pidgin that allow for denial…
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18 Election Websites Offline During the U.S. Midterm Elections possible DDoS attack
On the day of the U.S. midterm elections, the Contra Costa County Department of Elections website for was inaccessible starting at 7:20 a.m. local time. And it wasnât…
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100 Bitcoin bounty slapped onto head of blackmailer who DDoS attack Bitalo site
 On Saturday, an attacker and blackmailer âDD4BCâ sent a note to the Bitalo Bitcoin exchange threatening distributed denial of service (DDoS). DD4BC demanded 1 Bitcoin (about ÂŁ206,…
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DDoS Explosion Imminent for Guy Fawkes Day
Guy Fawkes: famous for a plot to assassinate Englandâs King James in 1604 and for guarding copious amounts of gunpowder, is remembered every Nov. 5 in Britain with…
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Pro-democracy Hong Kong sites DDoS’d with Chinese cyber-toolkit
Now we’re not saying it was the Chinese government, but… Hacking attacks against organisations promoting democracy in Hong Kong were run using the same infrastructure previously linked to…
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Shellshock Being Used to Build a DDoS Botnet to launch DDoS attacks
The advisory alerts enterprises to a DDoS botnet-building operation by attackers taking advantage of the Shellshock Bash bug in Linux-based, Mac OS X and Cygwin systems. Failure to…
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Cyber security expert warns of massive Ddos attacks against Armenian websites
Armenian cyber security expert Samvel Martirosyan warned today of Ddos attacks against Armenian websites. According to his personal site, a massive Ddos attack in 7 Gbps began yesterday…
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White House Says Unclassified Network Hit In Cyberattack
Mitigation efforts have caused temporary outages and loss of connectivity for some staff, but no computers have been damaged, official says. An unclassified portion of the White House…
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City of Phoenix Computers Under DDoS Attack
Police computer communication went down for almost an hour An attack targeting the computer systems of the public services in Phoenix, Arizona, affected the cityâs activity for a…
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Shellshock over SMTP attacks mean you can now ignore your email
‘But boss, the Internet Storm Centre says it’s dangerous for me to reply to you’ Yet another round of Shellshock attacks is emerging, according to the SANS Internet…