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Dr. Web disputes Flashback Mac Trojan bot army estimates

Much bigger than Symantec says Efforts by Apple and anti-virus vendors to kill the vast botnet assembled by notorious Flashback Mac Trojan may be much less successful than previously thought.…

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Dr. Web disputes Flashback Mac Trojan bot army estimates

Dedicated appliances for protection against DDoS

Fortinet introduced the FortiDDoS product family for enterprises, Web hosting and cloud service providers. The new FortiDDoS-100A, FortiDDoS-200A and FortiDDoS-300A are dedicated appliances that a…

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Dedicated appliances for protection against DDoS

Number-munching clouds are godsend for cybercrooks – experts

Perfect platform for password forcing, DDoS attacks Cloud computing providers came under fire today from security experts who blamed them for giving cyber-criminals the tools to launch attacks more easily, efficiently and anonymously than ever before.…

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Number-munching clouds are godsend for cybercrooks – experts

SpyEye botnet for sale at bottom price

A drop in the price asked for the latest version of the SpyEye botnet has security researchers worrying that users might soon be targeted with an increasing amount of infection attempts. A Pastebin…

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SpyEye botnet for sale at bottom price

Flashback botnet decline not as fast as expected

Given the attention that the Flashback Mac malware has received since the discovery of the 600K strong botnet of computers infected with it and the number of tools that various security firms and App…

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Flashback botnet decline not as fast as expected

Behind the scenes of the cleanest ISP in the world

The malware and botnet problem has been around for quite a while, and definitive solutions for it are still eluding the Internet and mobile communication industry, as well as the security industry. …

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Behind the scenes of the cleanest ISP in the world

Kaspersky Lab removes Flashfake Removal Tool (fixed)

In response to the recent discovery of the Flashfake botnet, Kaspersky Lab has released a free Flashfake Removal Tool. Unfortunately, Kaspersky Lab has identified an issue with the tool. In some ca…

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Kaspersky Lab removes Flashfake Removal Tool (fixed)