Tag: dos
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Throwback Thursday: The Unbearable Lightness of Testing
VB gets in on the Throwback Thursday act, delving into the archives. Over the last couple of years, the ‘Throwback Thursday’ trend has taken the Internet by storm, with social media users indulging in a weekly wallow in nostalgia, fondly resurrecting photographs of themselves wearing terrible fashion in their childhood or sporting awful haircuts in…
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UK government sites warned to brace against attack
GovCertUK issues warning in aftermath of arrests of Anonymous gang members. UK government websites have been warned that they may find themselves subject to attack following the arrest of five Britons as part of an investigation into the Anonymous hacking group earlier this week. The hacking group that calls itself ‘Anonymous’ has been under investigation…
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Microsoft’s machines hijacked by spammers
Servers also used for DoS attack on security journalist’s site. More than a thousand websites pushing spamvertised pharmaceuticals have been found to be using name servers on hacked machines in Microsoft ‘s IP space. Spammers and malware writers have a habit of hiding as well as they can and operating using hacked computers is a…