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DDos attacks spreading to IPv6 Internet
The next-gen Internet, still immature, is now a pathway for Net attacks, a study finds. Also, ideology has become the primary reason for DDoS attacks.
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Akamai: Russia responsible for 12% of malicious attack traffic
Russia has bypassed the U.S. as the top source for malicious attack traffic in the fourth quarter of 2010, according to data from Akamai Technologies’ latest State of the Internet report.
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Data breach costs rise with criminal attacks
Criminals are driving up the cost of data breaches for U.S. business, according to researchers at the Ponemon Institute and Symantec.
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World Series team: We're under attack! (but by whom?)
On Monday at 10:00am, tickets for the World Series went on sale. At 10:15am, the server crashed. The Rockies blame malicious computer hackers, but others remain doubtful. What was the real cause?
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Flame: 'Most complex' cyber-attack ever discovered
The world's "largest cyberattack" has been uncovered. Business and universities -- and governments -- were the main target of the attack by the data-stealing malware.
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Wikileaks has been under DDoS attack for the last three days
The Pirate Bay is down. Wikileaks is down. Visa was down. Are all these Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks a coincidence? Right now it's not clear, but something is definitely happening.
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Anonymous denies it is behind The Pirate Bay DDoS attack
The hacktivist group Anonymous has denied allegations that it is behind the Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack against The Pirate Bay. Update: The Pirate Bay has confirmed the denial.
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The Pirate Bay hit with massive DDoS attack
The Pirate Bay is down for me. Is it down for you? It may be, since the site has confirmed it is experiencing "a quite big" Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. It's unclear who is behind it.
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McAfee, Intel working to protect energy utilities from cyber attacks
Intel and its subsidiary McAfee are working on a security platform aimed to protect critical infrastructures, especially those that are energy-related, worldwide.
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Kaspersky investigates Mac security after spate of malware attacks
Kaspersky Lab is analyzing Mac OS X after a spate of malware attacks hit the operating system, according to a clarified statement from the security firm's CTO.
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The Pirate Bay criticizes Anonymous for DDoS attack
You can't make this stuff up. Virgin followed a court order to block The Pirate Bay. Anonymous executed a DDoS attack against Virgin. The Pirate Bay denounced Anonymous for its attack.
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Microsoft patches 23 Windows flaws, warns of risk of code execution attacks
The Patch Tuesday batch for May 2012 covers at least 23 documented vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows, the Microsoft .NET Framework and Microsoft Silverlight.
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Zscaler: 10% of sites are malicious, another 10% suspicious
Zscaler says the larger majority of websites are safe, but approximately 1 in every 5 of them can be classified as either malicious or suspicious. You can run the same tool on your own website.
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NASA, ESA confirm hacks; The Unknowns says systems patched
NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) have confirmed they were recently hacked. The hacking group The Unknowns says most of the 10 companies it attacked have patched their systems.
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Adobe warns: Flash Player malware hitting IE on Windows users
Although the vulnerability affects Flash Player on all platforms, the malware attacks target Flash Player on Internet Explorer for Windows only.
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Microsoft: Macs 'not safe from malware, attacks will increase'
Microsoft has discovered a new piece of Mac malware that exploits a three-year-old flaw in old versions of Office for Mac. The company recommends Mac users to keep installed software updated.
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Is Mozilla's Firefox 'click-to-play' feature a sound response to drive-by malware attacks?
In an attempt to slow down drive-by malware attacks, Mozilla plans to introduce 'click-to-play' feature in upcoming versions of its flagship Firefox browser.
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UK's SOCA website taken offline in DDoS attack
The UK's Serious Organised Crime Agency was pulled on Wednesday after a DDoS attack. Nobody has yet claimed responsibility for the attack.
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A first: Hacked sites with Android drive-by download malware
We've already seen websites that host Android drive-by download malware. Now, cyber criminals are experimenting with hacking legitimate websites to achieve the same means at a larger scale.
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Cross-platform malware exploits Java to attack PCs and Macs
The same Java vulnerability used in the infamous Flashback malware is now being used as an attack vector for a single piece of malware that can infect both Windows and Mac OS X computers.
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