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Symantec: The number of attacks on small business has tripled

According to the results of 2012 the volume of hacker attacks against the theft of intellectual property, increased by 42%. This attack, typically aimed at small businesses, experts at Symantec said in its latest annual report 2013 Internet Security Threat Report, Volume 18 (ISTR...
Symantec: The number of attacks on small business has tripled

Prolexic: The volume of DDoS-attacks has increased eight-fold

Prolexic, which provides IT-services, conducted a study of the number duration and frequency of DDoS-attacks, concerning the infecting of web-sites and computer systems with malicious files. According to the data, in the last three months, almost all indicators increased eight-fold, compared...
Prolexic: The volume of DDoS-attacks has increased eight-fold

Prolexic: The volume of DDoS-attacks has increased eight-fold

Prolexic, which provides IT-services, conducted a study of the number duration and frequency of DDoS-attacks, concerning the infecting of web-sites and computer systems with malicious files. According to the data, in the last three months, almost all indicators increased eight-fold, compared...
Prolexic: The volume of DDoS-attacks has increased eight-fold

Critical vulnerability in routers Linksys, Belkin, Netgear, Verizon and D-Link

According to researchers of Independent Security Evaluators, they were able to detect a number of critical vulnerabilities in 13 models of home routers from companies such as Linksys, Belkin, Netgear, Verizon and D-Link.
According to experts, they have contacted the developer of devices and gave...
Critical vulnerability in routers Linksys, Belkin, Netgear, Verizon and D-Link

"Black hat" malware developed for Internet trading system

Security researchers have discovered a sample of malware in the system of online trading and brokerage services - Quickly Updatable Information Kit (QUIK). The experts of the Russian company to prevent and investigate cybercrime Group-IB said that with the help of this malware a number of...
"Black hat" malware developed for Internet trading system

Microsoft introduced a fix to update MS13-036

Microsoft has released an update for computers affected by the detected error in one of the security bulletins that were released last week.

For example, the company introduced the users to boot the image file used to create the backup DVD or USB-disk, which can remove security updates...
Microsoft introduced a fix to update MS13-036