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The defendants were charged under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act in July 2011 [4] for the attempted denial of service attacks, which occurred in December 2010. [5] On December 5, 2013, ten of the defendants pleaded guilty to one misdemeanor count of damaging a protected computer and one felony count of conspiracy, and three others each pleaded guilty to one misdemeanor. [6]
SpyEye is a malware program that attacks users running Google Chrome, Safari, Opera, Firefox and Internet Explorer on Microsoft Windows operating systems. [1] This malware uses keystroke logging and form grabbing to steal user credentials for malicious use.
Corporations such as Amazon, PayPal, BankAmerica, Swiss bank PostFinance, MasterCard and Visa either stopped working with or froze their customers' donations to WikiLeaks due to political pressures. In response, those behind Operation Payback directed their activities against these companies.
BattleHack (or Battle Hack in the 2013 series) was a series of global hackathon contests organised by PayPal. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Competitors were required to solve a local problem by coding. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Winners of the first prize of each contest got an axe as the trophy, and admission to the world finals where competitors competed for the $100,000 ...
Slowloris is a type of denial of service attack tool which allows a single machine to take down another machine's web server with minimal bandwidth and side effects on unrelated services and ports.
Chris Reynolds, 56, of Media, Pa., opened an email from PayPal on Friday to see the staggering sum of $92,233,720,368,547,800 -- a figure more than 1.26 million times the fortune of the world's ...
Zeus is very difficult to detect even with up-to-date antivirus and other security software as it hides itself using stealth techniques. [5] It is considered that this is the primary reason why the Zeus malware has become the largest botnet on the Internet: Damballa estimated that the malware infected 3.6 million PCs in the U.S. in 2009. [6]
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