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Online Blackmail Gang running DDOS attacks

Published by: yuga under: The Internet. 14 replies

posted: July 16th, 2008

About 2 years ago, anti-virus and security company Sophos published a report that an online Russian blackmail gang was jailed for extorting $4 million from gambling websites. I thought this was old news until someone told me they’ve been a target of a DDOS attack only recently.

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McAfee: .HK, .CN and .INFO domains most dangerous

Published by: yuga under: The Internet. 10 replies

posted: June 5th, 2008

McAfee reveals that the most dangerous websites are those hosted on “.hk” (Hong Kong), “.cn” (China) and “.info” (information) domains. Dangerous — meaning, malicious malware sites or just plain old spammy sites.

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Important Security fix on WordPress 2.5.1

Published by: yuga under: Wordpress. 5 replies

posted: April 27th, 2008

A new WordPress release is just out on version 2.5.1 which fixes tons of bugs and a patch to a very important security vulnerability specifically if your blog is open to user registration. Those on WordPress is strongly encouraged to upgrade.

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