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ANALYSIS Brian Krebs should know a thing or two about distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. His security website was shut down by one of the largest in history.

Two Israeli teenagers, who allegedly ran a popular online service that could be hired to launch distributed denial of service attacks, have been arrested and released on bail, according to a published report.

Cyber-criminals are smart – they want to ensure that the customer gets the goods and do not complain and force a chargeback.

Adobe has revealed the massive hack it suffered a month ago was far bigger than initially reported, with attackers obtaining data on more than 38 million customer accounts.

In March this year, RSA was the victim of a relatively stealthy attack which appeared to have breached its proprietary secure token systems - the so-called key-fobs.  Unfortunately, they were not the only ones hit by the same attackers.