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How I can prove that SSH attacks are not from my application?
My ruby on rails web application is hosted on Linode. Linode opened a ticket and blamed my Linode server for attacking other servers. The logs revealed that it's a SSH brute force attack which ...
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Where can I obtain publicly available data about security attacks in Asia and Pacific? [closed]
I am trying to run an analysis of trends of security attacks with respect to world events (i.e. oil price hike induces an increased amount of attacks on oil companies).
The scope of my project is ...
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How to know what's the type of an attack and from whom is sent?
I'm currently running a game server on a dedicated Windows 7 machine and it is being attacked.
How do I know what kind of attack it is and from whom is sent?
When he attacks, the RDP freezes and the ...
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Cufon or Prototype as an attack vector for Blackhole exploit kit?
I've been asked to look into the security of a client site that's apparently throwing antiviral messages when visited.
Specifics:
It's being detected as a Blackhole exploit kit inside of a Cufon ...
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How to decode this runforestrun gootkit [closed]
Infected site is hxxp://www.infraredpsi.com/Pluginlab/Scripts/menuscript.js
online scan result:
http://urlquery.net/report.php?id=141893
I can de-obfuscate the first layer of the code that use the ...
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Ftp constantly asked for a .exe file, what can i do?
I rent a web server ("service") at a web hosting site which recently i assume got hacked but i am unsure how... I know it got hacked because recently out of the blue certain files and folder appeared ...
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How to respond to attack made from my dedicated server?
There was a sudden unusual peak of outbound traffic from my hosted dedicated server (OS - Windows Server 2008 R2). The hoster threatened to block the server if the problem is not solved.
There are an ...
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Facebook account keeps getting hacked, can't seem to figure out why or how?
One of my mate, she has a lot of friends on Facebook, uses it for marketing.
Her account keeps getting broken into. Her password gets reset and/or gets locked for changing resetting password too many ...
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What should I look at in the event of a major vendor suffering compromise with unspecified impact?
The specific example I have in mind here is the breach of RSA in March 2011 where attackers got away with critical information which could be the seed information which is used to generate the ...
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How to make a report after a ddos attack? what information do I need to write on the report?
In my company, after a DDOS against a server, my employer asked me to make an analysis of the attack and to write down some stuff.
What do you think I need to write down in my report?
Is there any ...
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Security papers or material focusing on the industrial control systems (SCADA)
Anyone know a good site or a list of resource to start to know issue related to the security of SCADA system ?
