Similarly, virus hunters will be able to detect the spread of new viruses or denial-of-service attacks early. NetBait, an Intel project, seeks to detect bugs better. A substantial portion of the work will revolve around trying to compensate for...
Online transaction service Worldpay appears to be the latest victim of a Distributed Denial of Service attack (DDoS) over the weekend with its website falling off the face of the internet by Monday. Such attacks typically involve bombarding...
Betfair, along with several other UK betting sites, has been targeted by Web-based criminals -- and has been a victim of DDoS attacks on three separate occasions. The chief technology officer of online gaming portal Betfair has called on more...
Online criminals are turning away from threatening companies with massive cyber attacks in favour of encrypting a victim's data and demanding money to release it, an antivirus expert has claimed. This malware infects a PC, encrypts some data, and...
Other approaches would be to only allow particular callers through by having the system determine the caller's identity but this could fall victim to spoofing. Ovum analyst Graham Titterington says: "A normal content filter won't work, although...
It wouldn't be a surprise if the network was used for spamming, distributed denial of service attacks, and other malicious activities. Stewart said the good news is security researchers can now distinguish encrypted Storm traffic from legitimate...
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