Following the discovery of a 600K strong Flashback botnet, Apple has been trying to undo the damage to its reputation and has worked on issuing tools, patches and updates aimed at cleaning up the infe…
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Apple ships Flashback removal tool for OS X 10.5 Leopard
Two Norwegian teenagers believed to have led DDoS attacks on a number of Norwegian and international websites have been arrested last Friday and Monday. The rather short notification by the Norwegi…
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Two Norwegians arrested over DDoS attacks
Virgin Media takes its website offline after a DDoS attack by hacktivists angered by The Pirate Bay access ban.
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Virgin Media suffers hack attack
Here's an overview of some of last week's most interesting news, podcasts and articles: What’s in your daily slice of spam? Bitdefender decided to look at just what spam – the e-mail version – c…
The main metric with which security researchers identify how effective and disruptive specific botnets are is the number of computers they consists of. Estimating their size allows them to asses…
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The difficulties in sizing up botnets
Suspiciously close to Soca’s shutdown of stolen-data shops The UK’s Serious Organised Crime Agency’s website has been taken offline following a DDoS attack that started last night and is still going on.…
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Botnet army flicks ‘off’ switch at UK crime agency website
We have all heard about the Flashback malware targeting machines running OS X and enslaving them into a botnet, but not a lot of attention has been given to the ultimate goal of the criminals behind i…
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Flashback botnet is a cash cow