A hacker group said to be connected to Hamas has claimed responsibility for distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on US banks in retaliation to the controversial video "The Innocence of Muslims" posted on Google's YouTube service. ...
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Microsoft has found several PCs,manufactured in China,to have had malware installed by cyber criminals. Microsoft's digital crimes unit stumbled across the malicious software during an investigation into Chinese manufacturers in August ...
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In what it says is an attempt to turn the tables on malicious hackers,security vendor Prolexic on Tuesday released details of vulnerabilities it has discovered in a toolkit family used by hackers to launch distributed denial of service ...
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Network World - LAS VEGAS -- To celebrate the 15th anniversary of the Black Hat Conference here, a panel of experts got together to expound on what they see as the privacy and security mess of our times, and they had plenty to say about the ...
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Chinese and Hong Kong Police have smashed a gang blackmailing gold,silver and securities traders with the threat of distributed denial-of-service(DDoS)attacks. The cross-border cyber policing operation netted six suspects in ...
Tags: China, DDoS attacks, gang blackmail, Chinese and Hong Kong Police