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Mar
20
2010

Trojan.fakealert.5 at BitDefender infected many computers

Today in the late afternoon millions of users of famous antivirus BitDefender had their computers infected by a trojan virus type bearing the name “Trojan.fakealert.5. The company recommends all users to disable their anti-virus and give time to prepare a corrective update. BitDefender users were surprised after updating to see all system files (dll) for [...]

Dec
26
2009

Celebrations shopping hit with DDoS attack

Before the celebrations, shopping sites in Northern California were affected by an attack from DDoS service outage. Neustar Inc. runs UltraDNS service provides DNS service to Amazon.com and Amazon Web Services. The sites were blocked because their DNS provider Neustar was hit by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on Wednesday. During the denial-of-service [...]