Botnet army flicks ‘off’ switch at UK crime agency website

Suspiciously close to Soca’s shutdown of stolen-data shops The UK’s Serious Organised Crime Agency’s website has been taken offline following a DDoS attack that started last night and is still going on.…

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Flashback botnet is a cash cow

We have all heard about the Flashback malware targeting machines running OS X and enslaving them into a botnet, but not a lot of attention has been given to the ultimate goal of the criminals behind i…

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Week in review: Hotmail 0-day bug, CISPA, and securing embedded devices

Here's an overview of some of last week's most interesting news, podcasts and articles: SpyEye botnet for sale at bottom price A drop in the price asked for the latest version of the SpyEye botn…

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Ghost of HTML5 future: Web browser botnets

With great power comes great responsibility … to not pwn the interweb B-Sides   HTML5 will allow web designers to pull off tricks that were previously only possible with Adobe Flash or convoluted JavaScript. But the technology, already widely supported by web browsers, creates plenty of opportunities for causing mischief.…

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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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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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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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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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