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Combating Distributed Denial of Service Attacks in Brazil, Latin America, and Everywhere Else

04

Nov

2011

One of the most disruptive attacks to deal with in today’s threat landscape is the distributed denial of service attack, often called DDoS. Using the resources of many other computers, an attacker can focus a vast amount of packets and power at a single resource and effectively knock it offline for as long a time […]

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Backdoor:OSX/Tsunami.A

31

Oct

2011

Our description for Backdoor:OSX/Tsunami.A is now online. Tsunami is a Mac OS X backdoor with bot functionality. The bot is capable of participating in DDoS attacks, and in fact, one variant attempts to connect to an IRC server with “anonops” in its name — as in (Internet collective) Anonymous Ops. Because there is no obvious […]

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Tsunami backdoor for Mac OS X discovered

26

Oct

2011

OSX/Tsunami-A, a new backdoor Trojan horse for Mac OS X, has been discovered. What makes Tsunami particularly interesting is that it appears to be a port of Troj/Kaiten, a Linux backdoor Trojan horse that once it has embedded itself on a computer system listens to an IRC channel for further instructions. Typically code like this […]

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