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Anonymous takes down El Salvadoran sites

08

Nov

2011

The hacktivist group’s “Operation Justice El Salvador” branch has “tried to attack our website to publicize the private information of internal and external users,” the economy ministry said. According to the AFP report, presidential spokesman David Rivas told reporters that the attack took the form of a distributed denial of service. The attack comes as […]

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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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Half of all spam is relayed via Asian computers

01

Nov

2011

Do you take enough care over your personal computer? Have you kept it up-to-date with the latest anti-virus software and security patches? Those are the kinds of questions you have to ask yourself if you want to avoid contributing to the “Dirty Dozen”, Sophos’s regular research into the countries which are relaying the most spam […]

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