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Could elections in Russia have resulted in internet attacks on websites claiming that the vote was being fixed? This weekend’s vote, which saw a slump in support for the United Russia party of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and President Dmitry Medvedev, has taken place against a backdrop of arrests, claims of election violations, and – […]

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Police detained a 16-year-old on Oct. 10 in relation to “a suspected attempt to encourage others to commit a distributed denial-of-service attack,” according to a spokesman from the cybercrime unit who was quoted in a report from the Associated Press. The spokesman also said that the teenager is out on bail and has not yet […]

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A zero-day vulnerability is causing BIND 9 DNS servers to crash across the internet. The flaw, described as an “as-yet unidentified network event”, appears to be a denial of service vulnerability being exploited in-the-wild. The flaw affects all supported versions of BIND. The internet Systems Consortium (ISC) have described the problem as follows: An as-yet […]

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