History made How often can we say that an IT blunder might have changed the course of world history? Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server whilst serving as outgoing US President Barack Obama’s Secretary of State became a key element in the US presidential election this year.…
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A year in infosec: Bears, botnets, breaches … and elections
Popular attack method could be stopped with a config tweak Security researchers have responded to recent denial of service attacks against gaming websites and service providers that rely on insecure Network Time Protocol servers by drawing up a list of vulnerable systems.…
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Don’t be a DDoS dummy: Patch your NTP servers, plead infosec bods
Internet of Things security scares already need to take a chill pill It’s still silly season, it seems. Tell the world that a bunch of small business broadband routers have been compromised and recruited into botnets, and the world yawns.…
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SPAM supposedly spotted leaving the fridge