Authorities in several countries have arrested a total of 10 people suspected of setting up a botnet of hijacked computers to steal personal information from millions of victims. The arrests were made in the UK, Bosnia and Herzegovina, ...
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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 ...
Tags: DNS, DDoS, Internet, World Hosts Report
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 number of fronts of risk and war, as some people call it, are definitely multiplying," says Clinton McFadden, senior operations manager for IBM X-Force research and development, which just released the results of its X-Force 2012 ...
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Mobile malware has surged this year,with Android smartphones and tablets by far the most likely to be attacked.That's according to data released by security software provider McAfee in its second quarter threats report. The number of ...
Tags: android devices, mobile malware, quantum chip, infected system