Written by Predictions is tough business – sometimes you get it right, mostly wrong and people never forget wrong. This year however, from all that I have been reading it seems DDOS / Botnets business and the business to protect from such attacks would be gaining more mainstream attention. DDoS became almost a household name with Wikileaks [...]
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New HTTP Exploit Found. Layer 7 DDoS Attacks Cometh!
A new exploit has been found in none other than the HTTP protocol. The flaw which essentially ‘slows’ down the response of the request on the server, will result in the denial of service, because of the long time the server will take to response to each request and at the same time, its available [...]
READ MORE »Operation: Payback Set for Another DDoS Attack
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Members of the Anonymous Operation: Payback plan to launch a DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack against the RIAA website today, Friday October 29 at 4.00 pm EST. After the Tuesday shutdown of the LimeWire client, Anonymous is mighty angry. Anonymous, whose members also include people from the 4chan “/b/” bulletin board, does not usually announce and [...]
READ MORE »How to DDoS: Botnet SDK Available on Twitter.
BitDefender is reporting that a social network Twitter is now being used to control botnets and in fact the SDK (Software Development Kit) for do it yourself Botnets is now available. More of this can be read at Help Net Security.
READ MORE »Malware Economy Thriving. Buy a DDoS bot today!
Malware economy is thriving – especially in this downturn economy. You can even buy your own bot from $100, to $ 3,500. Bots that can be used for stealing passwords, spamware, adware, ddos attacks, etc. are now available for sale if you know where to look. Read more here.
READ MORE »DDoS Tools: PenTBox
Here is something I discovered while scouting for DDOS tools, PenTBox is a Security Suite with programs like Password Crackers, Denial of Service testing tools (DoS and DDoS), Secure Password Generators, Honeypots and much more. Destined to test security/stability of networks and more. More on this can be read here.
READ MORE »Dutch ISPs huddle together.
Here is something that is interestingly brewing. Dutch ISPs have gotten together to essentially have a ‘treaty’ on controlling and eliminating botnet/malicious traffic from their networks. The short announcement can be read here.
READ MORE »Service proivders could finally get their act together…
Botnets the herds of zombie (compromised) computers that together cause distributed denial of service attacks, need to be curtailed, but service providers have always thought of this as not their problem. Well, that notion could be changing soon. Working together service providers could put a noose around the botnets and strangling their bandwidth. Read more [...]
READ MORE »Cyborgs for Cyber Defense.
And I quote… (because I cannot possibly do justice to the opening paragraph). “Stardate: The future. Scenario: North America is under attack from a highly skilled group of cybercriminals intent on bringing down major Internet exchange points. In a federal cybersecurity operations center, the commanding officer, whose brain has been augmented with powerful stimulation to [...]
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