It has already been established that the criminals behind the Flashback botnet were after money, but according to Symantec researchers, their plan was foiled by the attention that the first massive Ma…
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Flashback botmasters earned less than $15K
After 72 hours of being hit with an extensive DDoS attack and having been intermittently inaccessible to its visitors, The Pirate Bay and WikiLeaks are back online. It was initially thought that An…
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Anti-Anonymous hacker takes credit for The Pirate Bay DDoS
Following the discovery of a 600K strong Flashback botnet, Apple has been trying to undo the damage to its reputation and has worked on issuing tools, patches and updates aimed at cleaning up the infe…
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Apple ships Flashback removal tool for OS X 10.5 Leopard
Virgin Media takes its website offline after a DDoS attack by hacktivists angered by The Pirate Bay access ban.
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Virgin Media suffers hack attack
Here's an overview of some of last week's most interesting news, podcasts and articles: What’s in your daily slice of spam? Bitdefender decided to look at just what spam – the e-mail version – c…
The main metric with which security researchers identify how effective and disruptive specific botnets are is the number of computers they consists of. Estimating their size allows them to asses…
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The difficulties in sizing up botnets
Here's an overview of some of last week's most interesting news, podcasts and articles: SpyEye botnet for sale at bottom price A drop in the price asked for the latest version of the SpyEye botn…
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Week in review: Hotmail 0-day bug, CISPA, and securing embedded devices
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
Much bigger than Symantec says Efforts by Apple and anti-virus vendors to kill the vast botnet assembled by notorious Flashback Mac Trojan may be much less successful than previously thought.…
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Dr. Web disputes Flashback Mac Trojan bot army estimates
Fortinet introduced the FortiDDoS product family for enterprises, Web hosting and cloud service providers. The new FortiDDoS-100A, FortiDDoS-200A and FortiDDoS-300A are dedicated appliances that a…
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Dedicated appliances for protection against DDoS