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Briton sentenced for huge cyber attack on Liberian telco
By Connor Jones published
News Operating out of Cyprus, this hacker-for-hire knocked the entire country's internet offline - thought to be world first

Mirai now exploiting Hadoop flaw to target Linux servers
By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published
News Malware used to take half the internet offline is being used to build powerful botnets with just a handful of compromised servers

Growing 'anti-vaxx' online debate pinned on Russian botnets
By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published
News Sophisticated bots and trolls are ‘playing both sides’ of the debate to spread public health myths

Duo unravels three-tiered ‘crypto-giveaway’ botnet
By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published
News Researchers used a machine learning model to weed through 88 million Twitter accounts for bots and spammers

IoT revenue opportunity to exceed $1 trillion by 2025
By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published
News More than half of IoT devices will be deployed in enterprises as the market shifts away from connectivity

Infected Android apps back on Google Play after name change
By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published
News Symantec discovers seven malicious apps sneaked back onto Google Play with different names

Github weathers world's largest DDoS attack
By Adam Shepherd published
News The site had just ten minutes of downtime

Researchers warn of nine CVEs in Dell EMC's Isilon platform
By Adam Shepherd published
News The company's OneFS storage OS is vulnerable to cross-site request forgeries and privilege escalation
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