Tag: botnet
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More NSA Docs Reveal Botnet Hijacking
Der Spiegel’s recent flurry of Snowden documents have been causing somewhat of a paranoid uproar in the etch community. As the various American security services demand that big companies not let the public have access to industry level encryption, we learn that the NSA have the ability to turn vast botnets from hostile hackers to…
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Mac Users Under Attack By ‘Reddit’ Botnet
Whilst Apple fans have always maintained Apple’s desktop computing platform has always been more virus secure than other computer brands, viruses for Mac still exist and are still out there. A recent revelation has uncovered a brand new treat to Macs that bizarrely uses Reddit to coordinate attacks on host machines. Security boffins from Dr.…