Groups of companies in the same industry could pool infrastructure resources to help each other mitigate the effects of cyber attacks and work together on security issues, a senior official in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security ...
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Microsoft has published evidence of an extraordinary conspiracy in which potent botnet malware was apparently installed and hidden on PCs during their manufacture in China. In ‘Operation B70′ started in August 2011, Microsoft ...
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Microsoft has won a battle to permanently disrupt a haven for the Nitol botnet that it discovered within an Internet domain controlled by a Chinese ISP. The company has signed a private settlement that Peng Yong and Changzhou Bei Te Kang ...
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Check Point Software Technologies plans to introduce document security software that encrypts and controls access to files across an organization's various departments and also meets the growing need for corporate users to access company ...
Cyber attackers who disrupted the websites of U.S. banks over the last two weeks used a highly sophisticated toolkit — a finding that points to a well-funded operation, a security vendor has said. Prolexic Technologies said the ...
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Hacktivist group Anonymous has claimed responsibility for outages to several government websites last night. Various Twitter accounts that belong to the group were awash with the claims yesterday,including Anonymous Operations,an account ...
A senior government official has claimed that distributed denial of service(DDoS)attacks"do not lose companies any business". In a briefing on Friday,the official–who is associated with the UK cyber strategy,but refused to be ...
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A student is standing trial accused of aiding hacking collective Anonymous with an attack against online payment company PayPal which,it is claimed,cost the online payment service£3.5m. The jury at Southwark Crown Court was told how ...
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I recently attended a press event in Westminster where"three senior government officials"were to brief journalists on the latest developments in cyber security. These men,we were led to believe,are helping to ensure the UK is shielded ...
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Small to medium-sized enterprises(SMEs)suffer more from malware than larger organisations,but their security procedures are lagging behind,says security firm,Kaspersky Lab. SMEs are typically more vulnerable to viruses,worms,spyware and ...
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IDG News Service-Open and misconfigured DNS(Domain Name System)resolvers are increasingly used to amplify distributed denial-of-service(DDoS)attacks,according to a report released Wednesday by HostExploit,an organization that tracks ...
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HSBC has restored its online banking services after a distributed denial of service(DDoS)attack. HSBC said servers had come under a DDoS attack which affected HSBC websites around the world. The DDoS attack on HSBC did not affect any ...
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IDG News Service-Distributed denial-of-service(DDoS)attacks with an average bandwidth of over 20Gbps have become commonplace this year,according to researchers from from DDoS mitigation vendor Prolexic. Last year such high-bandwidth ...
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The websites of several Swedish government agencies were knocked offline on Friday. The website failures coincided with threats by hacktivists, claiming to be members of the Anonymous collective, to launch a cyber attack against Swedish ...
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An international gang of cyber crooks is plotting a major campaign to steal money from the online accounts of thousands of consumers at 30 or more major U.S.banks,security firm RSA warned. In an advisory Thursday,RSA said it has ...
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