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By Nancy Rand, Posted in Security

February 9, Securityweek – (International) DDoS malware for Linux distributed via SSH brute force attacks. FireEye researchers reported February 9 that a campaign utilizing Secure Shell (SSH) brute force attacks to install a distributed denial of service (DDoS) XOR.DDoS malware, first discovered by Malware Must Die in September 2014, has executed nearly 1 million login attempts between November 2014 and the end of January. Source February 9, Securityweek – (National) Tax fraud prompts Intuit to temporari... read more.

• February 10, 2015

By Nancy Rand, Posted in Security

February 5, Softpedia – (International) Flash Player 16.0.0.305 patches zero-day vulnerability. Adobe released an update for its Flash Player affecting version 16.0.0.296 and earlier versions for Windows and Macintosh that fixes a zero-day vulnerability reported by Trend Micro researchers. The vulnerability was leveraged by attackers through the Hanjuan exploit kit in malvertising campaigns on popular Web sites targeting Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox users. Source February 5, Softpedia – (Interna... read more.

• February 06, 2015