Increasingly common cybercriminal exploits, particularly those that occur on the Web, still don't have to be reported under any disclosure law even after a company discovers the attack on its site.
Last year PayPal was able to track down around 1, 000 IP addresses of people who had participated in a DDoS attack on its site because they had used the old LOIC.
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They briefed the Cobra committee (made up on this occasion by on-the-ball, internet-savvy actors playing the prime minister, culture secretary and home secretary) on response strategies to the threat, analysed a simulated Twitter feed to gauge the social media response to the issue, and discussed and debated strategies for managing the attack on a chat site called the Und3rgr0und - the gathering place of choice for Incognito hacktivists.
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Although his family paid the ransom, he managed to escape during a military attack with helicopters on the site he was held captive at the end of 2006.
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But patching the vulnerabilities used for mass infections of sites, which often use automated tools to spread malware among thousands of targets, is very different from patching every vulnerability a hacker could possibly use for a targeted attack on a single victim site.
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Retired fire department Deputy Chief Jim Riches, who lost his son in the terrorist attack, visited the site on Saturday.
As an Afghan government delegation visited the site in Kandahar on Tuesday, they came under attack from militants.
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Hannah Leigh, 17, said she was turned away from the bus on Mansfield Road, a mile away from the attack site.
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The site was chosen on the orders of Winston Churchill, who feared a German attack across the North Sea.
India's polarities killed both protagonists: the Mahatma was shot by a Hindu fanatic enraged by his solicitude towards Muslims, Indira by her Sikh bodyguards, provoked by an attack she authorised on Punjabi separatists who had seized Sikhism's holiest site.
This so-called Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack relies on having enough users, voluntary or not, to flood a site with so much traffic that it gets shunted offline.
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Facebook said the site responsible for its attack took advantage of a previously unknown Java vulnerability, which Oracle patched on February 1.
Speculation has spread over possible motives for the attack - including the possibility that a competitor is looking to set up a rival site on the network.
Trading on the MTGox exchange, which handles most trades in Bitcoins, was sluggish yesterday as the site fought off an attack.
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