‘Undesirable people’ are all over us WHMCS, the UK-based billing and customer support tech supplier, has once again come under denial of service attacks, on this occasion following an upgrade of its systems to defend against a SQL injection vulnerability.…
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WHMCS under renewed DDoS blitz after patching systems
First computer crime conviction in the former Soviet republic A cybercrook who established a 30 million computer strong botnet has been jailed for four years in Armenia .…
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Armenia jails Bredolab botmaster for 4 years
With great power comes great responsibility … to not pwn the interweb B-Sides HTML5 will allow web designers to pull off tricks that were previously only possible with Adobe Flash or convoluted JavaScript. But the technology, already widely supported by web browsers, creates plenty of opportunities for causing mischief.…
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Ghost of HTML5 future: Web browser botnets
Perfect platform for password forcing, DDoS attacks Cloud computing providers came under fire today from security experts who blamed them for giving cyber-criminals the tools to launch attacks more easily, efficiently and anonymously than ever before.…
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Number-munching clouds are godsend for cybercrooks – experts
Pumping spam, entering backdoors again almost right away Security researchers have warned that the resurrected Kelihos botnet blasted off the face of the web yesterday is still alive.…
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Kelihos zombies erupt from mass graves after botnet massacre
Kid cuffed in DDoS probe UK cybercops have claimed credit for preventing attempts to blast the official Royal Wedding website offline in April, following the arrest of a teenager suspected of masterminding the attack.
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UK cops: ‘We thwarted Royal Wedding web attack plot’