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 attack earns attacker two years, massive fine
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
Government tools penetrated many a Brazilian, apparently The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) had established 50,000-drone botnet by the middle of 2012, according to the latest Snowden leaks.…
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Just one NSA operation created a 50,000-strong botnet last year
Government tools penetrated many a Brazilian, apparently America’s NSA had established 50,000-strong botnet by the middle of 2012 using malware infections, according to the latest Edward Snowden leaks.…
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Just ONE NSA operation press-ganged a 50,000-strong botnet last year
You read that right: OPT OUT of a botnet by hitting Ctrl+Alt+Del Security researchers have discovered new zero-day vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer that are already being harnessed by hackers to run a new type of drive-by attack.…
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Yet ANOTHER IE 0-day hole found: Malware-flingers already using it for drive-by badness
Spook agency denies DDOS, blames sysadmins The USA’s National Security Agency (NSA), lately the source of near-endless controversy for spying on just about the entire internet, has itself hit trouble online after its website went down.…
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NSA.gov goes down after ‘error during scheduled update’
Project Shield guards activists, charities from web storms Google will shelter charities and activists from distributed denial-of-service attacks by wrapping their websites in its protection technologies.…
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If there’s somethin’ strange in your network ‘hood. Who y’gonna call? Google’s DDoS-busters
Wouldn’t have happened if you’d just used SVN, eh! Popular source-code warehouse GitHub was back online today after weathering a huge denial-of-service attack throughout the week.…
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GitHub wipes hand across bloodied face, stumbles from brutal DDoS beating
Pied piper Symantec says it led infected computers into sinkhole Symantec has claimed credit for luring a significant lump of the powerful ZeroAccess botnet into a sinkhole.…
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‘Quarter’ of TWO-MILLION-strong zombie PC army lured to their deaths
What could possibly go wrong other than a C&C net sharing your colo barn’s IP address? Telstra is preparing to get proactive with malware, announcing that it will be implementing a DNS-based blocker to prevent customer systems from contact known command-and-control servers.…
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Telstra to DNS-block botnet C&Cs with unknown blacklist