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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.
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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.
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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.
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Cisco completes Riverhead buy
April 16, 2004
The acquisition is expected to plug holes in the networking giant's intrusion-prevention offering.
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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.
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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.
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AT&T beefs up cybersecurity tools
June 1, 2004
The company is introducing an extra layer of security to protect enterprise networks from denial-of-service attacks.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Send, accept, store, and retrieve your e-mails and protect your server from DDoS attacks.
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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.
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Yahoo! Inc.
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Kazaa, eDonkey brace for attack
April 6, 2004
The file-sharing sites are expecting a distributed denial-of-service attack from new variants of the NetSky worm on Wednesday.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Unwitting pawns or partly to blame?
April 14, 2004
ICSA Labs' Bruce Hughes says companies that keep doing the same old thing can't honestly complain about new security breaches--not when they're playing deaf, dumb and blind.
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Code attacks Windows vulnerability
February 17, 2004
Code that exploits a critical vulnerability that Microsoft issued a patch for only last week has been posted online, raising fears of an imminent MSBlast-style attack.
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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.
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