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Elections 2012 and DDoS attacks in Russia

07

Mar

2012

As Eugene Kaspersky had written earlier, we were expecting new DDoS attacks on resources covering the Russian presidential election. So, as the country went to the polls on 4 March, we were on the lookout for new DDoS attacks. We were surprised to hear a news report from one mass media source that claimed a […]

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Viruses and hacking, as seen on TV and in the movies

31

Jan

2012

Working in the computer security industry, we’re pretty used to seeing malware and hacking misrepresented on our TV and movie screens. The truth is that normally malware is pretty humdrum. There’s nothing much to see (after all, if a piece of malware announces its presence, it sort of makes it obvious to the computer’s owner […]

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Click on an Anonymous link, and you could be DDoS’ing the US government

20

Jan

2012

Here’s a quick summary of events: * On Wednesday, thousands of websites participated in an “internet blackout”, protesting against proposed US anti-piracy legislation. * Yesterday, file-sharing website Megaupload was shut down, and its founders arrested. The charge? Online piracy alleged to have cost the entertainment industry more than half a billion dollars. * Overnight, websites […]

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