Or not, if you look at the numbers Australia has won the dubious honour of being named in the global top-10 DDoS sources, and in its quarterly State of the Internet report, Akamai reckons our tiny number of high-speed fibre broadband users are the cause.…
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NBN vaults Australia into global top-10 … DDoS attack sources
Officers also visiting 50 addresses for a quiet word The National Crime Agency has arrested six users of a Lizard Squad DDoS attack tool, which had been used against a national newspaper, a school, gaming companies, and a number of online retailers.…
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NCA arrests six Lizard Squad users after gaming firms, retailers targeted
What’s that big spike on site performance graph? GitHub is under a distributed-denial-of-service attack being perpetrated by unknown actors.…
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GitHub wobbles under DDOS attack
Bad taste still lingers Botnet slaughterer Brian Wallace has created a module to detect when attackers are using the popular browser-busting BeEF hacking framework.…
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Vegan eats BeEf, gets hooked
Not the way you want to lead the world Level 3 Communications says America is home to more botnet command and control servers, edging out the Ukraine, with Russia only managing third place.…
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US the world’s botnet mothership says Level 3
153 computers, six SCADA systems, most C&C points to Iran Botnet boffin Peter Kleissner says at least 153 computers are still slaves to Stuxnet.…
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Super Stuxnet’s SCADA slaves: security is atrocious
Laying waste to human, elf, dwarf and orc alike, all for the love of gold Running botnets-for-hire to mount DDoS attacks has become cheaper and easier than ever, according to a new research.…
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Unable to log on to online games? Blame cheap-rate DDoSers
A harsh lesson, now stand in corridor for four hours The University of London Computer Centre fell victim to a cyber-attack on Thursday.…
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DDoS attack downs University of London learning platform
Vulnerability may allow ne’er-do-wells to access the 1990s SEC Consult Vulnerability Lab Stefan Viehbock says potentially millions of routers and internet of things devices using KCodes NetUSB could be exposed to remote hijacking or denial of service attacks.…
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‘Millions’ of routers open to absurdly outdated NetUSB hijack
Online spooks hide ‘numbers station’ control node in plain sight Cyber-spies are increasingly attempting to hide their command and control operations in plain sight by burying their command infrastructure in the forums of internet heavyweights, including Microsoft.…
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Chinese cyber-spies hid botnet controls in MS TechNet comments