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Similar to DDoS attacks, TDoS also used to extort cash from targets, including businesses and public service agencies
Visited websites are listed as source of illegal material to make bogus police messages more believable, researcher says
A U.S. funding law calls for increased scrutiny on IT purchases for select federal agencies
Perpetrators of the DDoS ambush against Spamhaus exploited open DNS resolvers in third-party servers
From DDoSing spammers to Egyptian cable hackers, the Net has been under steady attack -- yet it's still standing
Large-scale denial-of-service attack was only noteworthy because attackers hit Internet exchange points, says GTT's CTO
It's not the first time hackers have designed malware to use legitimate services to post instructions for their botnets
The attack caused problems for the global Internet
Among 12,328 randomly selected Amazon Simple Storage Service buckets, researchers found nearly 2,000 containing freely accessible data
Microsoft just released its first acknowledged security update for a Metro app -- and the new patching method is a disaster waiting to happen