Darkode vendor of Facebook malware pleads guilty to one charge
- Brian Burke-Gaffney
- Aug-18-2015
- Business Technology
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A New York man pleaded guilty Monday to one federal spam-related charge for selling access to a botnet of Facebook accounts on a now-shuttered cybercriminal forum.Eric L. Crocker, 29, of Binghamton, New York, could face up to three years in prison […]
Read MoreGaming services, hosting companies hit with new type of DDoS attack
- Brian Burke-Gaffney
- Aug-18-2015
- Business Technology
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Gaming and hosting companies have been hit with a new kind of DDoS attack that could snowball without preventive steps, Level 3 Communications warned on Monday.Attackers have figured out how to abuse portmap services that have been left openly accessible on […]
Read MoreBitTorrent programs can be abused to supercharge denial-of-service attacks
- Brian Burke-Gaffney
- Aug-17-2015
- Business Technology
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BitTorrent applications used by hundreds of millions of users around the world could be tricked into participating in distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, amplifying the malicious traffic generated by attackers by up to 50 times.DDoS reflection is a technique that uses […]
Read MoreBitTorrent programs can be abused to supercharge denial-of-service attacks
- Brian Burke-Gaffney
- Aug-17-2015
- Business Technology
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BitTorrent applications used by hundreds of millions of users around the world could be tricked into participating in distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, amplifying the malicious traffic generated by attackers by up to 50 times.DDoS reflection is a technique that uses […]
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