Botnet activity is on the increase. The recently discovered Maazben botnet is now rapidly increasing its share of malicious traffic. More on this here.
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DDoS Tools
Sep 10
Just picked up this on the airwaves. DDoS 5 1.5 Final has been uploaded on Rapidshare.

http://rs91.rapidshare.com/files/277362145/DoS_5_1_.5_Final.rar
http://www.rapidsharedownload.net/forums/applications/4968-ddos-5-1-5-final.html
Download at your own risk.
Australian Computer Emergency Response Team (AusCERT), has confirmed that the Australian Prime Minister’s Office has been suffered a distributed denial of service attack recently.
More can be read on this Computer World Report.
The Tech Herald is reporting that a new IIS vulnerability has been found and confirmed by Microsoft. The vulnerability which exists in IIS allows denial of service attacks to happen.
More on this story can be read at Tech Herald’s website.
ZDNet is also reporting the same. Read more on this at ZD Net: Microsoft FTP in IIS vulnerability now under attack