Views: 47,983 This story actually gave me a lot of LULZ, how stupid can you be seriously? Man this guy made so many mistakes for someone so paranoid (he had a web cam setup outside his appartment door so he could see who was coming).. But then he exposed his IP address on IRC, posted […]
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Slowloris – HTTP DoS Tool in PERL
Views: 25,126 [ad] This tool has been hitting the news, including some mentions in the SANS ISC Diary. It’s not actually a new attack (it’s been around since 2005) but this is the first time a packaged tool has been released for the attack. Slowloris holds connections open by sending partial HTTP requests. It continues […]
Malware Distributor & Bot Network Master Sentenced To 4 Years
Views: 3,620 [ad] It seems to the feds are really cracking down on cybercrime recently, with a special kind of attention paid to botnets and their handlers. The sentences are getting stiffer too, this time with 4 years in prison for running a botnet and data theft. I hope they keep it up, botnets are […]
Hackers Targeting Xbox Live Players with DoS Attacks
Views: 7,628 [ad] Well the day has come when money-minded botnet owners have turned their services towards online gaming. For a small fee (USD20) you can get someone to set you up with the software to ‘boot’ people from the Xbox Live network. It’s always been a problem in gaming, if something can get hold […]
Kyrgyzstan Taken Offline by Huge Denial of Service Attack
Views: 7,408 [ad] Isn’t it amazing in this day and age an entire country can be knocked offline by Denial of Service attacks! You’d have though it wouldn’t happen any more. I do remember the days when it was fairly easy to take one of the smaller ISPs out in UK, so I guess the […]