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CloudFlare has said it has observed mobile advertisements that are pumping out around 275,000 HTTP requests per second. No victims have been named, but cloudflare has said the Layer 7 HTTP floods hitting the target is a once-theoretical attack turning up in the real world. London CloudFlare engineer Marek Majkowski says the difficulty in turning HTTP floods into a real attack was overcome using malicious JavaScript in an advertisement. "Browser-based L7 floods have been rumored...

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Hackers are using a new strain of malware, dubbed GreenDispenser, to infect ATMs and then drain the machine of all its cash, researchers at ProofPoint have revealed. Once Installed, the malware displays an 'out of service' message on the ATM. However these clever attackers can still enter a specific PIN and take the cash and the erase all trace of the malware by using a "deep delete" process, leaving little trace of how the machine...

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For a number of years, October has been dubbed Cyber Security Awareness Month. The problem is that not many people know that and fewer do anything about it. Well, it's time to change that. The last week of October (26th-20th) we're launching a campaign called Security Serious - five days dedicated to businesses and consumers who take security seriously and want to share their cyber security experiences with others. Our mantra will be 'we're taking...

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Malvertising is making the headlines once more, this time with popular websites Forbes.com and Realtor.com serving up malicious malware. FireEye researchers have reported that eight Forbes URLs attached to news stories between 2012 and 2015 were included in the attack, whilst Malware bytes is reporting that people browsing Realtor.com website over the last few days may have been exposed to a malvertising campaign. Both attacks are similar to previously reported attacks that hit sites including...

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Apple has been hit by what is suspected to be the first large scale attack on its app store. Hackers have created a counterfeit version of Apple’s software for building iOS apps, which developers were persuaded to download. The apps in question are particular popular for iPad and iPhone users in China. In a statement, Apple has said they are taking steps to remove the malicious code. The code acts to steal data about users...

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The Kremlin has reportedly been hit by what they have described as a “very powerful” distributed denial of service attack – also known as a DDoS attack. The attack is reported to have targeted the nation’s electoral commission. A similar attack was made on Sunday, which targeted the official website of Russian president, Vladimir Putin. As many as 50,000 requests per minute were made in the attacks, according to Vladimir Churov, chairman of Russia’s electoral...

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Good morning and welcome to IT Security Guru news. New Hampshire’s attorney general has today been notified of a breach at TD Bank. Reports indicate that an employee took personal data from the bank’s database and shared it with a third party, which has yet to be named. In the report given to the attorney general, TD bank’s head of US privacy and Social media compliance said that the personal information they obtained may have...

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Telecoms company Vodafone has been lambasted in the press this morning amid reports they may have unlawfully accessed a journalist’s phone records. Natalie O’Brien’s call and text records were accessed by investigators in 2011. I should add that Vodafone denies asking the investigators to make such a move. The Australian federal police have taken over the investigation. It was for the purposes of tracking down a source – a Vodafone manager is quoted as instructing...

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In today's news: The Daily Telegraph is reporting that jihadists in Syria have hacked into ministerial email accounts in a sophisticated espionage operation uncovered by GCHQ. GCHQ reportedly alerted Whitehall officials in May, with the investigation finding the attempts to steal information from the personal correspondence of several of David Cameron's senior ministers, including Home Secretary Teresa May. If accessed, the emails could have disclosed events that government figures and members of the royal family...

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