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Call to arms against cybercrooks
November 29, 2004 Betfair exec says that more industry cooperation is needed to prevent denial-of-service attacks. TAGS: Betfair, distributed denial of service, denial of service, Internet Service Provider, e-commerce, threat, attack, broadband, games, security, PC
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Security from A to Z: DDoS
November 27, 2006 Denial-of-service attacks, which take down a Web resource, are used by digital blackmailers. Part of a series on hot security topics. TAGS: distributed denial of service, denial of service, attack, resource, security, server, e-mail
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Blue Security attack linked to blog crashes
May 4, 2006 DDoS attack on antispam campaigner redirected to blog-hosting firm Six Apart, forcing it offline, security firm says. TAGS: Six Apart Ltd., distributed denial of service, anti-spam, LiveJournal, TypePad, blog, spammer, blog posting, traffic, spam, security, attack, server
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'Final Fantasy XI' under attack
April 18, 2005 DDoS attacks bog down performance of Square Enix's online services; gamers in Japan, Europe and North America affected. TAGS: Final Fantasy, distributed denial of service, attack, Japan, North America, Europe, server
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For F-Secure, it's all about the safety net
June 4, 2007 Kimmo Alkio takes stock of the current state of hackers, attackers, dot-bank domains and mobile phone viruses. TAGS: Kimmo Alkio, distributed denial of service, emerging market, F-Secure Corp., threat, mobile phone, phishing, India, attack, security, virus, CEO, PC
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Antivirus expert: 'Ransomware' on the rise
February 7, 2007 Kaspersky warns 2007 will bring increase in extortion schemes to encrypt your data and hold it hostage. TAGS: Kaspersky Lab, distributed denial of service, victim, police, RSA Security Inc., malicious software, attack, antivirus, conference, trojan horse, server, PC
Downloads
FortGuard Firewall 2.2
Protect your computer against DDoS attacks. TAGS: distributed denial of service, intrusion prevention system, packet, TCP, protection
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'Zombie' PCs caused Web outage, Akamai says
June 16, 2004 Attackers built a "botnet" of unknowing home PCs to bring down Google and other sites, the company says. TAGS: Akamai Technologies Inc., distributed denial of service, bot, zombie, attack, outage, home PC, attacker, server, Yahoo! Inc., Apple Computer, Google Inc., security, PC, Microsoft Corp.
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Attacks disrupt some credit card transactions
September 22, 2004 Flood of data interrupts Authorize.net's credit card processing for Internet merchants, leaving the company scrambling. TAGS: Authorize.net, Snapbridge Software Inc., distributed denial of service, credit card transaction, credit card, outage, denial of service, attack, Internet service, vice president
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Antispam screensaver downs two sites in China
December 2, 2004 "Make love not spam" site has taken two sites offline, a Web traffic monitoring firm says. TAGS: Lycos Inc., distributed denial of service, bandwidth, anti-spam, Web portal, spammer, spam, portal, screensaver, China, denial of service
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British cybercops nab alleged blackmailers
July 21, 2004 And they're promising more arrests on the trail of purported extortion and money laundering by a Russian gang. TAGS: gang, distributed denial of service
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DNS servers do hackers' dirty work
March 24, 2006 New twist on denial-of-service attacks could intensify cybercriminals' threat to online business. TAGS: DNS server, Nominum Inc., DNS, distributed denial of service, assault, VeriSign Inc., chief scientist, denial of service, target, attack, server, domain name, IP address, IP
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Cyberattack in Estonia--what it really means
May 29, 2007 Arbor Networks' Jose Nazario takes stock of the denial-of-service attack against the Baltic nation--and the wider implications. TAGS: Jose Nazario, Arbor Networks, cyberattack, denial of service, distributed denial of service, attack, survey, event, DNS, server
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BitTorrent servers under attack
December 2, 2004 File sharers on at least one hub of the peer-to-peer network were shut out for 10 hours, an admistrator says. TAGS: BitTorrent, P2P, distributed denial of service, attack, administrator, denial of service, server, file-sharing, PC
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Experts: Zombies ousting viruses
May 25, 2005 Attackers are drafting bot armies of up to 10,000 machines rather than creating global epidemics like Blaster, security experts say. TAGS: Kaspersky Lab, antivirus company, malicious software, epidemic, distributed denial of service, antivirus, tactic, author, radar, spam, trojan horse, Blaster worm, virus, PC, e-mail
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Expert: Online extortion growing more common
October 8, 2004 "Every online gambling site is paying extortion," says Alan Paller of the SANS Institute. TAGS: extortion, SANS Institute, distributed denial of service, London
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Antispam campaign bites the dust
December 6, 2004 Lycos Europe throws in the towel on its controversial attempt to enlist PCs to deluge spammers' sites. TAGS: Lycos Inc., anti-spam, spammer, denial of service, distributed denial of service, Web portal, screensaver, spam, campaign, F-Secure Corp., portal, law, PC
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Lycos Europe denies attack on zombie army
December 1, 2004 Defacement of "Make love not spam" site was a hoax, not a hack, the Internet portal says. TAGS: Lycos Inc., spammer, Internet portal, bandwidth, denial of service, distributed denial of service, F-Secure Corp., spam, attack, screensaver, e-mail
Downloads
Laptop Mail Server 2.5
SMTP/POP3 server for laptop TAGS: SMTP, e-mail server, mailing list, distributed denial of service, anti-spam, server, POP3, high-performance, laptop computer, e-mail

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