Garden-variety DDoS attack knocks North Korea off the Internet

Computerworld Security: December 23, 2014
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Garden-variety DDoS attack knocks North Korea off the Internet

The simplest explanation for North Korea's suddenly dropping off the Internet on
Monday was a distributed denial-of-service attack that overwhelmed the isolated
nation's tenuous connection to the rest of the world, experts said.
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Two-factor authentication oversight led to JPMorgan breach

The attackers who stole information about 83 million JPMorgan Chase customers
earlier this year gained a foothold on the company's network because a server
reportedly lacked two-factor authentication.
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The new Chthonic Trojan borrows features from ZeuS and several of its spinoffs,
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Google wants to turn browser signals of Web encryption upside down

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