$300 or the trendy website gets it … and the website got it Meetup.com has gone public with one of the most paltry ransom demands The Register has seen – but rather than pay up to end a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, the klatch organizer instead put up with its site being repeatedly hosed offline, we’re told.…
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Miscreant menaces Meetup, minuscule money mania mashed
Your medical files are worth big bucks to fraudsters RSA 2014 The low levels of security in healthcare IT systems, and the high value of its data, is going to make the sector the next big target for scammers, according to the Microsoft-backed team that takes down botnets.…
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Crap hospital databases next goldmine for cyber-crooks, say Microsoft’s botnet slayers
NTP flaw used again, effects minimal Once again hackers are targeting content-delivery firm Cloudfare, and the company says this latest attack is its biggest yet, peaking at over 400Gbps of traffic.…
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Europe shrugs off largest DDoS attack yet, traffic tops 400Gbps
Researcher allegedly blocked after he went public A security consultant who works for Telefonica has turned up a bug in how Snapchat handles authentication tokens, which enables a denial-of-service attack against users’ phones.…
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Snapchat bug lets hackers aim DENIAL of SERVICE attacks at YOUR MOBE
Scheiße! Überprüfen Sie Ihre Angaben in neuen Datenbank Officials in Germany have warned that large networks of hijacked, hacker-controlled PCs – aka botnets – have harvested 16 million email address and password combinations for websites and other online services.…
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Botnet PC armies gulp down 16 MILLION logins from around the web: Find out if you’re a victim
1775Sec: Um, we were trolling for, er, Aaron Swartz… Pranksters latched onto an outage at Dropbox on Friday to push false rumours of a politically motivated hack.…
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Dropbox outage was caused by ‘buggy’ upgrade: DDoS us? You hardly know us…
Reports claim revenge attack after digi-currency restrictions Angry Bitcoin users are suspected of DDoS-ing the website of China’s central bank following tough new restrictions it levied this week which appear to have forced the world’s biggest Bitcoin exchange into meltdown.…
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China’s central bank hit by DDoS after Bitcoin blitz
Just don’t bork our crim-busting honeypots again Microsoft has teamed up with the FBI to launch a renewed attempt to disrupt the operations of the infamous ZeroAccess botnet.…
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Microsoft teams up with Feds, Interpol in ZeroAccess botnet zombie hunt
Low Orbit Ion Cannon claims another victim A Wisconsin man has been sentenced to two years of probation and a fine of $183,000 after pleading guilty to taking part in an Anonymous DDoS attack against the servers of Koch Industries for one minute.…
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One-minute Koch-blocking earns attacker two years, massive fine
Botnet decap should be a team effort – ex-detective infosec bod Botnet takedowns need to be improved if the industry is to avoid the risk of creating more problems than it solves every time its decapitates a zombie network, according to a former Scotland Yard detective turned security researcher.…
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Must try HARDER, infosec lads: We’re RUBBISH at killing ZOMBIES