Monthly Archives: January 2014

How Often Do We Get Scanned?

One of the questions that arises from time to time is just how often do we get scanned by some kind of attacker looking for vulnerabilities? This is a bit of a tough question to answer as it involves looking … Continue reading

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NTP and DNS Amplification Distributed Denial of Service Attacks

This post is a bit more technical than the usual, and covers a kind of attack that is not only the kind of attack we may fall victim to, but an attack that we could participate in! Defences against this … Continue reading

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You cannot con an honest person…or can you?

Some advice from TrendLabs on avoiding Cryptolocker…. An infection with CryptoLocker starts as spam email which carries a Trojan (a downloader).    The spam might promise a ‘free way to unlock software’ its success depends on the social engineering lures used … Continue reading

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