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, […]
It was a sad day in the technology industry with the recent passing of Apple’s legendary leader, Steve Jobs. Unfortunately, the cyber-criminals see this as an opportunity. Today, we started seeing a Steve Jobs spam campaign, with the subject suggesting that he is still alive. Steve Jobs Alive! Steve Jobs Not Dead! Steve Jobs: Not […]
It’s a sad day for us at Sophos, and our friends at Astaro, as Jack Daniel is leaving us. I won’t beat around the bush, when I heard that Sophos was planning to acquire Astaro one of the things I was most excited about was the prospect of working alongside Jack. All of us who […]
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