2012
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Anti-Anonymous hacker takes credit for The Pirate Bay DDoS
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…
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Three-Quarters of IT Professionals Fear Negative Brand Impact or Customer Experience as a Result of DDoS Attacks
New Data from Neustar Finds DDoS Attacks Can Cost Retailers More Than $100,000 Per Hour May 15, 2012, 9:30 a.m. EDT STERLING, Va., May 15, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE)…
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Apple ships Flashback removal tool for OS X 10.5 Leopard
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…
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Two Norwegians arrested over DDoS attacks
Two Norwegian teenagers believed to have led DDoS attacks on a number of Norwegian and international websites have been arrested last Friday and Monday. The rather short notification…
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Virgin Media suffers hack attack
Virgin Media takes its website offline after a DDoS attack by hacktivists angered by The Pirate Bay access ban.
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Week in review: Sizing up botnets, Conficker still alive and kicking, and a new exploit kit spotted in the wild
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…
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The difficulties in sizing up botnets
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…
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Flashback botnet is a cash cow
We have all heard about the Flashback malware targeting machines running OS X and enslaving them into a botnet, but not a lot of attention has been given…
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Week in review: Hotmail 0-day bug, CISPA, and securing embedded devices
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…