Thanks for many Doges!Posted by and in Current Events, Hot Security Topics- HST, Internet Security Tips BitCoin’s popularity flourishes, along with the attention of attackers and vulnerabilities, alternative crypto-coin markets such as Litecoin have been attracting late comers to the Internet peer-2-peer crypto-currency mining business.An example of a Litecoin currency which recently joined the herd is Dogecoin.The term ‘doge’ originated from the Internet meme where the Homestar Runner puppet show intentionally mis-spelled the word ‘dog’.Doge is pronounced “dohj”, but that’s still an undecided upon argument.Dogecoin has been gaining in popularity because of the plentiful mining and exchange rates from LTC to BTC and/or USD that would attract anyone looking to make some low effort side coin.Dogecoin was introduced on December 6th, 2013 and since then has seen much popularity resulting in a DDOS of some pool services adversely affecting its exchange rate.Giving rise to its first major crash on December 22nd, 2013.

Mining continued, in a rush to accumulate as much of the 100 billion dogecoins allocated and 18 days after its genesis approximately 12.5% have been collected.This much attention will attract all kinds of decent folk and cyber-scum the Internet has to offer.israel bitcoin minerOn December 25th, 2013 Dogecoin and its patrons are now amongst the infiltrated and robbed in the digital wallet world.buy bitcoin keychainWhile many of us were taking the day off, spending time with friends and family, the cyber-criminals were hard at work emptying digital wallets.bitcoin pool statsAs shown from the Dogecoin forum posts, it appears hundreds of transactions, large and small, have funneled into a cyber-criminal’s digital wallet with the address (DQT9WcqmUyyccrxQvSrjcFCqRxt8eVBLx8).top bitcoin ptc

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On May 17, 2013, I published a primer article titled Security War Games for Dark Reading highlighting the value for an organization to encourage their technologists to partake in security war games for a stronger defensive team.bitcoin mixer scamThe team of ethical hackers is called MiSec, short for Michigan Security, and were testing their metal against 173 teams spread across the planet.litecoin video cardThe team captain, Wolfgang Goerlich, Vice President of Consulting Services for VioPoint, asked if I would join the MiSec team to deploy a Barracuda Web Application Firewall (WAF) and Barracuda NG Firewall in front of a highly vulnerable Linux server.The CTF was an attack and defend style competition.Goerlich assigned team leads to organize the attack, known as Red Team, on competitive vulnerable servers while the defensive, Blue Team, was looking to protect their nine services from attacks.

That’s where the Barracuda WAF and Barracuda NG Firewall came into the mix.Goerlich dubbed the Barracuda layers of protection as project “SHIELD”.When asked about the strategy behind using Barracuda technologies, Mr.Goerlich respond, “The goal of project SHIELD was to reduce the number of flags we lose per application, thus increase our total points.” Unfortunately, once we established the lay of the land, as soon as points were earned they were quickly captured by competitors before the tuning can be applied.Goerlich continued, “We employed a strategy of putting the technology in place, monitoring, and selectively enabling IPS for specific applications.” As shown in the rules graphic, competitive team traffic was restricted from being filtered out, additionally, all hostile activity originated from a single IP... Microsoft’s attack on the ZeroAccess botnet reduces spam Posted by in Anti-Spam, Current Events This article was contributed by our Engineer John Sparry During the first week of September, Barracuda Labs identified 10,498 unique domains in the content of captured spam messages.

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