One of the most disruptive attacks to deal with in today’s threat landscape is the distributed denial of service attack, often called DDoS. Using the resources of many other computers, an attacker can focus a vast amount of packets and power at a single resource and effectively knock it offline for as long a time Read more…
Tags: Brazil, DDoS, distributed denial of service, DoS, LOIC, SlowLoris
Did you know that 80% of the world’s spam comes from “zombie” computers? A zombie isn’t the living dead you’ll see looking for fresh brains; it is a computer that has been taken over by cybercriminals and can be controlled from afar, unbeknownst to the user sitting in front of the screen. The armies of Read more…
Tags: Belarus, botnets, Brazil, Cybercrime, cybercriminal, India, Indonesia, malware, Russia, spam, zombie computers, zombies
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