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DDoS-for-Hire Service Launches Mobile App

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2017 01:55:52 +0000

In May 2013 KrebsOnSecurity wrote about Ragebooter, a service that paying customers can use to launch powerful distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks capable of knocking individuals and Web sites offline. The owner of Ragebooter subsequently was convicted in 2016 of possessing child pornography, but his business somehow lived on while he was in prison. Now just weeks after Poland made probation, a mobile version of the attack-for-hire service has gone up for sale on the Google Play store.

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Mingis on Tech: The iPhone X – best phone for business, or best phone ever?

Credit to Author: Ken Mingis| Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2017 14:15:00 -0800

When it comes to mobile devices, companies tend to like three things: solid security, ease-of-management and low cost.

With Apple’s iPhone X, it looks like you can check off two of those three items. The phone’s cutting-edge Face ID authentication system really does work. iOS 11 is easy to manage and inherently secure. But that last one – price – is a big one. The iPhone X  starts at $999 for the 64GB model and goes to $1,149 for the 256GB version.

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