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Florida man charged in botnet attack on Akamai
A federal court in Boston on Tuesday heard charges that 32-year-old John Bombard of Seminole used a variant of the Gaobot e-mail worm to turn computers–including systems at…
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National Australian Bank hit by DDoS Attack
The attack, which was first detected at 6am, saw the blocking of access to the NAB’s site and slow log-ons for the bank’s internet banking customers occured intermittently…
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Wales takes lead in combating e-crime
As the use of the internet, online banking and transfer of valuable information becomes ever more pervasive, so increasing numbers of individuals and businesses are becoming victims of…
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Islamic hackers hit Vatican site– unsuccessfully
Islamic computer hackers tried to disrupt the Vatican web site earlier this week, but failed, according to a report in the ANSA news service. In an online forum…
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IntruGuard Devices Announces Managed Security Services Partnership Program
IntruGuard Devices, Inc., a leading provider of distributed denial of service (DDoS) firewall security appliances, recently announced the debut of a managed security services partnership (MSSP) program. IntruGuard’s…
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Airline foils hackers with latest high-tech defences
A private airline which faced financial ruin after a hacking gang brought its computers to a halt during three months of sustained attacks, claims to have turned the…
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Russian cyber-blackmailers sent to the Gulag
Authorities in Russia have gaoled a gang of cyber-criminals who blackmailed online companies through distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. The gang is said to have extorted more than $5000…
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Philippine Data Center Launch Anti-DDOS Security
Internet data center services provider IP-Converge Data Center, Inc. has signed a deal with security firm Prolexic to build Asia’s first large-scale anti-DDOS (distributed denial of service) platform…