Tag: throwback thursday
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Throwback Thursday: Tools of the DDoS Trade
According to a recent report by analytics firm Neustar (summarized in a Threatpost blog post here ), DDoS attacks are on the increase, are taking longer to detect, and are costing firms more to fix – with an average loss per attack of roughly $2.5 million among those companies surveyed . Back in 2000, DDoS attacks…
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Throwback Thursday: Tools of the DDoS Trade
According to a recent report by analytics firm Neustar (summarized in a Threatpost blog post here ), DDoS attacks are on the increase, are taking longer to detect, and are costing firms more to fix – with an average loss per attack of roughly $2.5 million among those companies surveyed . Back in 2000, DDoS attacks…
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Throwback Thursday: Michelangelo – Graffiti Not Art
This week marked the 25th anniversary of the Michelangelo virus. The boot sector virus was designed to trigger on 6 March 1992, on which date it would override all of the data on the infected machine’s hard drive. The Michelangelo virus – which was so named by researchers for the fact that 6 March was also the…
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Throwback Thursday: Michelangelo – Graffiti Not Art
This week marked the 25th anniversary of the Michelangelo virus. The boot sector virus was designed to trigger on 6 March 1992, on which date it would override all of the data on the infected machine’s hard drive. The Michelangelo virus – which was so named by researchers for the fact that 6 March was also the…
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Throwback Thursday: Once a researcher…
VB was saddened to learn this week of the passing of one of the pioneers of the AV industry, Ross M. Greenberg. Ross Greenberg, author of Flushot, Virex PC, and telecommunications program RamNet UUCP: a man of diverse interests. Ross M. Greenberg was the author of Flushot , one of the world’s first anti-virus programs,…
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Throwback Thursday: Once a researcher…
VB was saddened to learn this week of the passing of one of the pioneers of the AV industry, Ross M. Greenberg. Ross Greenberg, author of Flushot, Virex PC, and telecommunications program RamNet UUCP: a man of diverse interests. Ross M. Greenberg was the author of Flushot , one of the world’s first anti-virus programs,…
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Throwback Thursday: A troubled world
In early 1991, the world was a troubled place – President George H. W. Bush had just announced the start of military Operation Desert Storm and conflict and violence were being reported globally on a daily basis. With this as a backdrop, the world of “indiscriminate” computer viruses which “victimise in a random and unpredictable manner”…
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Throwback Thursday: A troubled world
In early 1991, the world was a troubled place – President George H. W. Bush had just announced the start of military Operation Desert Storm and conflict and violence were being reported globally on a daily basis. With this as a backdrop, the world of “indiscriminate” computer viruses which “victimise in a random and unpredictable manner”…
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Throwback Thursday: The malware battle: reflections and forecasts
“Another year has come to its end and the malware battle still rages on. It seems to be a never-ending uphill struggle to secure digital information.” This could have been written just weeks ago, but in fact comes from an article written 13 years ago, in which Jamz Yaneza reflected on the year just ended and…
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Throwback Thursday: The malware battle: reflections and forecasts
“Another year has come to its end and the malware battle still rages on. It seems to be a never-ending uphill struggle to secure digital information.” This could have been written just weeks ago, but in fact comes from an article written 13 years ago, in which Jamz Yaneza reflected on the year just ended and…