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Contrary to popular beliefs, bigger isn’t always necessary better. This is especially true when it comes to distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks where instead of size, much more significant is the type of attack.
This is just one of the conclusions published by Radware’s Emergency Response Team (ERT) after... (read more)
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While some anti-ACTA protests take place in the real world, some still believe that distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks are the best way to show their disapproval against the controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA).
As a result, French anti-piracy outfit Hadopi and others are named as targets and hit... (read more)
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Even though the Romanian faction of Anonymous started their campaigns not long ago, since the beginning of 2012 they have left their mark on many government institutions they consider to be corrupt, their latest target being the website of the Ministry of European Affairs (dae.gov.ro).
The hacktivists managed to gain acce... (read more)
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Germany’s Federal Office for Information Security (BSI), the government’s IT security service provider, issued guidelines with the purpose of educating both individuals and companies on the safety measures they should implement to make sure their digital assets are protected.
Their recommendations address ... (read more)
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After the PHP Group fixed the hash collision issue by releasing a patch to mitigate attacks, the fix turned out to be problematic, experts identifying a remote code execution vulnerability. Now, it turns out that the same variant opened up the possibility of a new class of HTTP header attacks.
Stefan Esser, ... (read more)
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Since no important public figure died and all the prizes and outrageous videos offered in scams were used up, cybercriminals that rely on Facebook schemes to spread their malicious campaigns turned to news about the United States attacking Iran and Saudi Arabia.
Sophos experts found a large number of statuses on Facebook that allegedl... (read more)
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Motorola Mobility came forward with a press statement to admit that they may have exposed some of their customers to potentially malicious operations after mistakenly re-selling 100 Motorola XOOM Wi-Fi tablets that still contained the data left on them by previous owners.
In a mistake they call a “refurbishment p... (read more)
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Almost every day while surfing social media networks, especially Facebook, we come across a large number of scams and hoax messages. Some offer fabulous prizes, some offer outrageous video and others promise a unique feature.
All these scams and hoax messages are malicious, most of them being designed to harm the integrity o... (read more)
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Hackers around the world moves on with SEPO, an Eastern European hacker that considers himself to be a gray hat that turns into a black hat if corrupt companies, governments, or Anonymous targets are involved. He is known for targeting major African and Middle Eastern companies and financial institutions such as the national diamond company of Ango... (read more)
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After Kaspersky revealed that the Kelihos botnet they terminated back in September in a partnership with Microsoft and Kyrus Tech Inc. may have returned, the Redmond company comes forward with some clarifications, arguing that this is actually a new version of the Kelihos malware that’s being used to create a new botnet.
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