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Worldwide law enforcement action takes down major DDoS booter services

Malwarebytes

Criminals making use of booter services which execute Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks to take down websites will have to try a little bit harder today: A major international operation has taken no fewer than 48 of the most popular booter services offline. The FBI has seized this website for operating as a DDoS-for-hire service.

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Security Vulnerabilities in Dell Laptops

CyberSecurity Insiders

Report released by the firm says that the discovered flaw is actually an amalgamation of 5 different flaws that are present on the Dell BIOS Utility Driver called DBUtil and has been in place since 2009.

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Episode 255: EDM, Meet CDM – Cyber Dance Music with Niels Provos

The Security Ledger

And yet, the awareness of cyber security risks – from phishing and social engineering attacks to software supply chain compromises – remains low. Software is now central to the operation of our economy – as digital transformation washes over every industry. Nobody knows that better than our guest this week.

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Endpoint security for Mac: 3 best practices

Malwarebytes

Phishing attacks, vulnerability exploits, DDoS attacks, and much more threaten your company’s Macs at any time — and if any of them are successful, it could cost your business millions in lost productivity and information theft. And it’s not just malware you have to worry about with your Mac endpoints.

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Top Web Application Firewall (WAF) Vendors

eSecurity Planet

With two options to choose from, the Web Application Protector (WAP) offers DDoS protection , bot management, and is pre-configured to detect the latest threats. Cloudflare is a web infrastructure and cybersecurity company founded in 2009 and located in San Francisco, California. Cloudflare WAF. Read our in-depth review of Imperva WAF.

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Who is the Network Access Broker ‘Wazawaka?’

Krebs on Security

Wazawaka spent his early days on Exploit and other forums selling distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that could knock websites offline for about USD $80 a day. That last domain was originally registered in 2009 to a Mikhail P. “Come, rob, and get dough! . Matveyev , in Abakan, Khakassia.

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Top Zeus Botnet Suspect “Tank” Arrested in Geneva

Krebs on Security

The JabberZeus crew’s name is derived from the malware they used, which was configured to send them a Jabber instant message each time a new victim entered a one-time password code into a phishing page mimicking their bank. In the chat below, “lucky12345” is the Zeus author Bogachev: tank: Are you there?

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