Google engineers offer guidance to keep application developers from shooting themselves in the foot. In the wake of the last month’s distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against Dyn, a DNS management service, Google engineers want to remind application developers that self-harm represents a more realistic risk.…
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How to avoid DDoSing yourself
Revamped version speeds junk mail attacks A revamped version of the Torte botnet malware is turning insecure CMS servers into spam-spewing zombies.…
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SpamTorte botnet gets turbo-charged
Process pig keeps eyes glued on fraudsters’ phone number. Tech support fraudsters have taught an old denial of service bug new tricks to add a convincing layer of authenticity to scams.…
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Tech support scammers use denial of service bug to hang victims
Communications failure leads to zero day, late patch, natch. Millions of do-it-yourself websites built with the Wix web maker were at risk of hijack thanks to a brief zero day DOM-based cross-site scripting vulnerability.…
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Universal hijack hole turns DIY Wix blogs into botnets
Cops say net crims launched 1.7 million attacks from 15 year-old’s creation. A 19 year-old Hertfordshire man has pled guilty to running the Titanium Stresser booter service that offered distributed denial of service (DDoS)-as-a-service.…
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Teen UK hacker pleads guilty after earning $385k from DDoS tool
Exploit can halt attacks from IoT devices Security researchers have discovered flaws in the Mirai botnet that might be used to mitigate against future attacks from the zombie network.…
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Researchers expose Mirai vuln that could be used to hack back against botnet
Reddit, Github, Airbnb and pals affected A denial of service attack against managed DNS provider Dyn restricted access to many US-based websites on Friday.…
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Dyn dinged by DDoS: US DNS firm gives web a bad hair day
SOHOpeless CCTVs and video recorders It shouldn’t surprise anyone that closed circuit television (CCTV) rigs are becoming the world’s favourite botnet hosts: pretty much any time a security researcher looks at a camera, it turns out to be a buggy mess.…
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Hungarian bug-hunters spot 130,000 vulnerable Avtech vid systems on Shodan
Hackforums leak Malicious code used to press-gang IoT connected devices into a botnet was leaked online over the weekend.…
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Source code unleashed for junk-blasting Internet of Things botnet
Akamai CSO laments pisspoor security design practices Internet of Things devices are starting to pose a real threat to security for the sensible part of the web, Akamai’s chief security officer Andy Ellis has told The Register .…
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No wonder we’re being hit by Internet of Things botnets. Ever tried patching a Thing?