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Hacker group threatens to take Pokémon Go offline on August 1
Telegraph.co.uk PoodleCorp took the servers down by overwhelming them with traffic from a "very big botnet", a network of virus-connected computers that can be remotely controlled en-masse by cyber criminals, according to XO. "We have various devices, pretty much all … |
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The Reality of Cyberwar – P.W. Singer and August Cole – POLITICO Magazine
Politico A key challenge in this new environment of fear is that terms like “cyber war” and “cyber Pearl Harbor” are tossed around today in politics and media with as much precision as the term “war” itself. There is a massive array of cyber threats out there … What US must do — right now — to combat growing cyber threat | Fox News |
The anonymising service Tor has seen a huge surge in popularity this month with the number daily users shooting up to over 1,200,000 from a fairly consistent average of 550,000 directly connected users over the last year.
Naked Security – Sophos
Eight security updates, three of which are rated critical, were released for this Patch Tuesday to address 23 vulnerabilities in Exchange, Internet Explorer and Windows. Microsoft recommends deploying MS13-059 and MS13-060 first.
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