Some of you may know this, but before coming to McAfee, I worked for Cisco Systems. So believe me when I say that Cisco is no push-over. Cisco is competitive and the people at Cisco work hard to win. That’s why I was particularly interested in the news that Cisco recommended McAfee for its IronPort Read more…
Tags: anti-virus, Cisco, computerworld, cyberthreats, denial of service, DoS, email security, IronPort, IT Security, McAfee, Network Security, Sophos, web security
Darkshell is a distributed denial of service (DDoS) botnet targeting Chinese websites. It was found in 2011 and was first analyzed by Arbor Networks. McAfee Labs recently analyzed a few new samples that turned out to be variants of Darkshell, and we found extensive variations in network traffic and control commands. The Darkshell bot follows Read more…
Tags: botnet, Darkshell, DDoS, denial of service
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