Dropbox URL shortener targetted by spammers

Spammers are abusing a Dropbox feature that lets users share a shortened link, directing people to websites selling questionable pharmaceuticals, according to security vendor Symantec. Dropbox, the file-sharing and synchronization service, has a public folder that is dedicated to sharing content. Dropbox’s URL (uniform resource locator) shortening service can be…

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IPv6 networks targetted by DDoS attackers

Cybercriminals have started launching distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against networks that transmit data over IPv6 (Internet Protocol version 6), according to a report published recently by DDoS mitigation vendor Arbor Networks. Even though 2011 was the first year when IPv6 DDoS attacks were recorded, such incidents remain rare because they…

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