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  1. allheart55 (Cindy E)

    Teen pleads guilty to creating DDoS tool used in 1.7 million attacks

    A 19-year-old UK teenager from Hertfordshire has pleaded guilty to creating and running the Titanium Stresser booter service, with which he launched 594 denial of service (DDoS) attacks. According to a statement put out by the Bedfordshire Police, Adam Mudd developed the tool when he was just...
  2. allheart55 (Cindy E)

    These 60 dumb passwords can hijack over 500,000 IoT devices into the Mirai botnet

    The release of the Mirai source code demonstrates just how easy it has become to hijack poorly-protected Internet of Things devices into botnets. Mirai has become infamous in recent weeks after blasting the website of security blogger Brian Krebs off the internet with a massive distributed...
  3. allheart55 (Cindy E)

    Dyn DDoS – what can we do right now to help prevent the next attack?

    The digital dust has settled, for now at least, on last week’s Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack against DNS service provider Dyn. Some of the rumors we’ve heard for attack on Dyn include: The DDoS was an experiment to see how big an attack could be if the crooks really wanted. The...
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