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Admin of DDoS Service Behind 200,000 Attacks Faces 35yrs In Prison At the end of a nine-day trial, a jury in California this week found guilty the administrator of two distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) operations. 32-year old Matthew Gatrel of St. Charles, Illinois, ran two websites that allowed paying users to launch more than 200,000 DDoS
Mozilla Tests Microsoft Bing As The Default Firefox Search Engine Mozilla is running a study to test users’ responses to changing the default Firefox search engine to Microsoft Bing. Like all browsers, Mozilla Firefox automatically configures a browser to a default search engine for performing searches via the address bar. For example, Google is the
Billions More Android Devices Will Reset Risky App Permissions Google announced today that support for a recently released Android privacy protection feature would be backported to billions of devices running older Android versions later this year. The permission auto-reset feature, first introduced with Android 11, is designed to protect users’ privacy by automatically removing runtime
OMIGOD: Microsoft Azure VMs Exploited To Drop Mirai, Miners Threat actors started actively exploiting the critical Azure OMIGOD vulnerabilities two days after Microsoft disclosed them during this month’s Patch Tuesday. The four security flaws (allowing privilege escalation and remote code execution) were found in the Open Management Infrastructure (OMI) software agent silently installed by Microsoft on more