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Dishigy dishes out the DDoS and we dig deeper…

25

May

2012

The May edition of the Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool saw the inclusion of two new malware families: Win32/Unruy and Win32/Dishigy. Let’s dig a bit deeper into Dishigy and the nature of Denial of Service.So, bear with me while I take you back to security 101.A Denial of Service (DoS) attack is a pretty straightforward […]

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Extracting the fare

15

Feb

2012

When malware is found lurking on a system, quite often it isn’t acting alone. Once malware distributors have control of a system, they will do everything they can to compromise the machine and the user for maximum gain — for instance, hijacking a browser’s search results, or using rogue security software to extract payments from affected […]

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Has TechCrunch been hacked?

18

Jan

2012

Well, perhaps not.. but certainly, something very strange is going on. Back in June 2008, technology uber-blog TechCrunch announced its own news aggregator service called “TechNews” which had more than a passing similarity to Reddit. TechCrunch announced that the system was currently on one of its test servers. Whatever happened next to TechNews is lost […]

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