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UK Sets Up Fake Booter Sites To Muddy DDoS Market

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The NCA says hiring or launching attacks designed to knock websites or users offline is punishable in the UK under the Computer Misuse Act 1990. men with computer crimes related to their alleged ownership of popular DDoS-for-hire services. ” the NCA announcement continues. According to U.S.

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A Deep Dive Into the Residential Proxy Service ‘911’

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For the past seven years, an online service known as 911 has sold access to hundreds of thousands of Microsoft Windows computers daily, allowing customers to route their Internet traffic through PCs in virtually any country or city around the globe — but predominantly in the United States. The 911 service as it exists today.

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Teach a Man to Phish and He’s Set for Life

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RLO is a special character within unicode — an encoding system that allows computers to exchange information regardless of the language used — that supports languages written from right to left, such as Arabic and Hebrew. ’ One would think Microsoft would have had plenty of time by now to address this.”

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How Cybercriminals are Weathering COVID-19

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Charitable cybercriminal endeavors were the subject of a report released this week by cyber intel firm Digital Shadows , which looked at various ways computer crooks are promoting themselves and their hacking services using COVID-19 themed discounts and giveaways.

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Bomb Threat, Sextortion Spammers Abused Weakness at GoDaddy.com

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Your Web browser knows how to find a Web site name like example.com thanks to the global Domain Name System (DNS), which serves as a kind of phone book for the Internet by translating human-friendly Web site names (example.com) into numeric Internet address that are easier for computers to manage.

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