Overwhelmed by the number of attacks against PBX systems at the managed service provider where he works, a security engineer has launched a project to gather and and list offending IP addresses involved in VoIP abuse."Throughout the course of the day, I got tired of seeing VoIP based brute force attempts that I decid... |
30 September 2010
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Security researchers are concerned about new variants of the Sality virus, which exploit the currently unpatched Windows shortcut vulnerability. Microsoft reports a surge in related attack traffic generated by threats from the Sality family of malware.The recently discovered bug in how Windows processes shortcuts (id... |
31 July 2010
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According to Akamai, Russia and the United States were the leading sources of attack traffic during the first quarter of 2010. With four countries in the top ten, Europe is responsible for 44% of attacks recorded during the same period.Akamai, one of the world's leading content distribution networks and cloud-se... |
28 July 2010
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According to a Symantec report 90% of all websites used to spread malware or launch attacks against users are legitimate ones that have been compromised. For over half of the remaining 10%, that are malicious by design, attackers register new domains every day.The data used to compile the report (PDF) comes from Mess... |
8 July 2010
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According to a study performed by Atlanta-based security company SecureWorks, the United States is responsible for the largest number of attempted cyber attacks in the last six months, with rate of 1.6 incidents for every PC in the country. Meanwhile, India is the most “peaceful” nation, with an attacks-p... |
5 July 2010
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According to a report from Akamai, one of the world's largest content distribution networks, Russia and Brazil surpassed the United States and China in terms of attack traffic for the third quarter of 2009. Around 80% of responsible attacks were generated by variants of the infamous Conficker worm and targeted p... |
18 January 2010
10:57 GMT |
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