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GoDaddy hit by a DDoS attack
Domain name registrar and web hosting provider GoDaddy.com, was hit by a DDoS attack on Wednesday affecting thousands of its shared hosting customers for several hours.
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Hardware Hacker Charged
In the first case of its kind, a Pennsylvania man faces federal criminal charges for allegedly selling hacked cable modems capable of stealing free, anonymous internet service from broadband providers.
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Storm Worm botnet cracked wide open
A team of researchers from Bonn University and RWTH Aachen University have analysed the notorious Storm Worm botnet, and concluded it certainly isn't as invulnerable as it once seemed.
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SpaceTruckers: NASA will allow Private firms to haul ISS cargo
Cut off in the seclusion of space, crew members living aboard the International Space Station (ISS) depend on regular deliveries of air, water, food and fuel for their survival.
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US teen admits to 'Anonymous' DDoS attack on Scientology
By Dan Goodin • Get more from this author
Posted in Crime, 17th October 2008 21:52 GMT
A New Jersey man has admitted he participated in January's high-profile cyber attack on the Church of Scientology that took its website offline and caused as much as $70,000 worth of damage …
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NASA Mars Lander Sees Falling Snow
WASHINGTON -- NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has detected snow falling from Martian clouds. Spacecraft soil tests experiments also have provided evidence of past interaction between minerals and liquid water, processes that occur on Earth.
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9th Annual System Administrator Appreciation Day
July 25th, 2008 (Last Friday Of July)
9th Annual
System Administrator Appreciation Day
If you can read this, thank your sysadmin
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Security hole found in Apple Mac OS X Tiger and Leopard
The Apple Remote Desktop agent can be subverted by downloaded applications and scripts to get root. Which is bad. (Updated) (Plus fix)
June 20, 2008 5:54 PM
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Botnet cyber-attack costs Tokyo company 300 million yen
Kenichiro Tanaka Yomiuri Shimbun Staff Writer
A type of blackmail is increasing in Japan in which a blackmailer bombards companies' Web sites with data sent from tens of thousands of virus-infected personal computers to hamper browsing of their sites.
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CastleCops attacker, Silenz, pleads guilty
A 21-year-old American has admitted to using a potent botarmy to wage a relentless campaign of destruction on two volunteer websites as part of a scheme to punish the operators for behavior he thought was unfair.
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Final Skynet satellite launched
An advanced satellite that will improve greatly the ability of UK military forces to communicate around the globe has been launched into space.
The Skynet 5C platform rode into orbit atop an Ariane 5 rocket from the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana.
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IronPort Research Discovers Links Between Malware Originators and Illegal Online Pharmaceutical Supply Chain
IronPort® Systems, a leading provider of enterprise spam, virus and spyware protection, and now part of Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO), today announced that recent research has identified a link between originators of malware, such as Storm, and illegal pharmaceutical supply chain busines …
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Dodgy drug sales underpin Storm worm
Illegal pharmaceutical supply chain outfits have become the main customers of botnet farmers. Spam-pushing botnets, such as that established by the Storm worm, are raking it in advertising dodgy drug websites, according to a study by security appliance firm IronPort.
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Jail sentence for botnet creator
A hacker who hijacked hundreds of PCs to create a botnet has been sentenced to 41 months in jail by a US court.
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Sadie, the Amazon Outage mascot
Amazon.com's US site KO'd!
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