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Tendency for DDoS attacks to become less volumetric fits in a wider trend
A current trend sees DDoS attacks focusing less on large volume attacks and more on attacks that exhaust server resources, Cloudflare reports . The number of layer 7 attacks per day. Source: Cloudflare. This makes sense. The purpose of a DDoS attack is to render a service unavailable, and as increased defences have made it…
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Turkish Twitter users targeted with mobile FinFisher spyware
A new research paper by digital rights organization Access Now looks at how FinFisher has been used against people interested in anti-government protests in Turkey. Through fake social media accounts, users were tricked into installing an Android application which was actually a mobile version of the FinFisher spyware. The use of a massive campaign, as…
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Turkish Twitter users targeted with mobile FinFisher spyware
A new research paper by digital rights organization Access Now looks at how FinFisher has been used against people interested in anti-government protests in Turkey. Through fake social media accounts, users were tricked into installing an Android application which was actually a mobile version of the FinFisher spyware. The use of a massive campaign, as…
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Hide’n’Seek IoT botnet adds persistence
The Hide’n’Seek IoT botnet has received an update to make its infection persist on infected devices beyond a restart, Bitdefender reports . Though persistence is fairly common for traditional botnets that target ( Windows ) PCs, a device that is part of a botnet targeting the Internet of Things (IoT) can often be ‘cleaned’ simply…
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Hide’n’Seek IoT botnet adds persistence
The Hide’n’Seek IoT botnet has received an update to make its infection persist on infected devices beyond a restart, Bitdefender reports . Though persistence is fairly common for traditional botnets that target ( Windows ) PCs, a device that is part of a botnet targeting the Internet of Things (IoT) can often be ‘cleaned’ simply…
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Registration for VB2018 now open!
Registration for VB2018 , the 28th Virus Bulletin Conference, which will take place in Montreal 3-5 October this year, is now open. Last month, we announced an exciting and wide-ranging programme for the conference, with keynotes from John Lambert ( Microsoft ) and Wendy Nather ( Duo Security ), and talks from many renowned speakers including…
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Registration for VB2018 now open!
Registration for VB2018 , the 28th Virus Bulletin Conference, which will take place in Montreal 3-5 October this year, is now open. Last month, we announced an exciting and wide-ranging programme for the conference, with keynotes from John Lambert ( Microsoft ) and Wendy Nather ( Duo Security ), and talks from many renowned speakers including…
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RSA 2018: the good, the bad, the ugly, the great and the fantastic
Two weeks ago, I was one of the more than 50,000 people who attended the RSA expo in San Francisco. I deliberately say ‘expo’, for while I spoke at the event two years ago, this year I didn’t have the time to attend any of the talks – which certainly wasn’t for a lack of…
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RSA 2018: the good, the bad, the ugly, the great and the fantastic
Two weeks ago, I was one of the more than 50,000 people who attended the RSA expo in San Francisco. I deliberately say ‘expo’, for while I spoke at the event two years ago, this year I didn’t have the time to attend any of the talks – which certainly wasn’t for a lack of…
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Standalone product test: Kaspersky Security for Microsoft Office 365
The Office 365 productivity software has become one of Microsoft ‘s flagship products, providing organizations around the world with collaboration tools, office applications and an email service. There are some security solutions on the market that are designed to increase the default protection provided by Office 365 . One such product is the newly launched…
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