2017
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Alleged UK Bank Hacker Extradited From Germany
U.K. officials have extradited the man who allegedly masterminded a cyberattack earlier this year that impacted two of England’s biggest banks. They have accused 29-year-old Daniel Kaye, who…
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Google pulls 300 Android apps used for DDoS attacks
A number of security researchers teamed up to fight the WireX botnet. If a random storage manager or video player you downloaded recently has disappeared from your Android…
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Critical infrastructure not ready for DDoS attacks: FOI data report
The UK’s critical infrastructure is vulnerable to DDoS attacks due to failure to carry out basic security defence work – 39 percent of respondents to a recent survey…
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Hackers Use Thousands Of Infected Android Devices In DDoS Attacks
Hundreds of thousands of home routers, IP cameras and other internet-of-things devices have been infected with malware over the past year and have been used to launch some…
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Tech firms band together to take down Android DDoS botnet
An ad-hoc alliance of tech firms has managed to seriously cripple an Android-based botnet that was being actively used to DDoS multiple content providers. The botnet, dubbed WireX…
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3 Ways to Defeat DDoS Attacks
In 2012, a number of DDoS attacks hit Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo, U.S. Bank and PNC Bank. These attacks have since spread across most industries…
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DreamHost, web hosting company, blames powerful DDoS attack for online outages
DreamHost, one of the world’s largest web hosting companies, said a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) caused significant outages Thursday affecting customers of its web and email services. The Los…