botnet
Mitigating Denial of Service attacks to WordPress xmlrpc
- Albert Zenkoff
- 2014-07-14
- Technology, attack, botnet, DDOS, denial of service, htaccess, mitigation, redirect, server, user agent
I have attracted attention, apparently. My website is under a Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) attack by a botnet for the last week. I am flattered, of course, but I could live without a DDOS, frankly. The requests go to xmlrpc.php every second or two from a different IP address from around the world: POST ...
Read MoreFraud Botnet Controls Sales Terminals
- Albert Zenkoff
- 2013-12-05
- Society, botnet, credit card, Dexter, fraud, malware, point of sales, POS, security, StarDust
Ah, the humanity. ArsTechnica reports that researchers came across a proper botnet that controls 31 Point Of Sales (POS) servers with an unknown number of actual sales terminals connected to them. The botnet is operational, i.e., it is running and collecting the credit card data. The data is transmitted during idle times in an encrypted ...
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Albert Zenkoff
Managing corporate security in both technical and business sense in the context of long-term business strategy and sustainability.
For security consulting, training, certification and audit mail albert@aruberusan.com.
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Albert Zenkoff
Managing corporate security in both technical and business sense in the context of long-term business strategy and sustainability.
For security consulting, training, certification and audit mail albert@aruberusan.com.