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Malaysia’s 2013 general elections are scheduled for Sunday, May 5, 2013. Political news coverage is currently inundating all news outlets, including social networking sites, as the country’s political parties go into high gear in the final run-up to polling day. The huge media interest creates an opportunity for malware writers to gain new victims using […]

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PostgreSQL is a fully featured object-relational database management system. It supports a large part of the SQL standard and is designed to be extensible by users in many aspects.  Graphical user interfaces and bindings for many programming languages are available as well.Earlier this month, I discovered a denial of service vulnerability in versions of PostgreSQL that caused a crash […]

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Could distributed denial of service (DDoS) malware be evolving to defeat anti-DDoS security measures like CloudFlare? We do not usually see a lot of innovative denial-of-service malware in our day-to-day work. What we do see usually boils down to the basic flooding techniques: TCP Syn, UDP and ping floods, and sometimes HTTP-oriented floods. Of course, […]

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