2015
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How to sabotage DDoS-for-hire services?
We all know the damage that DDoS-for-hire services can inflict on websites and organizations behind them. What is less known is that a simple move like making PayPal…
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Anti-botnet initiatives USELESS in sea of patch-hating pirates
A million low end, pirate boxes still spewing malware relic. Three Dutch researchers have crunched data gleaned from efforts to battle the Conficker bot and declared anti-botnet initiatives…
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BitTorrent exploits allow lone hackers to launch large DDoS attacks
The technology is vulnerable to exploit in launching a breed of DDoS attack which reflects and amplifies traffic. A flaw in BitTorrent clients can be exploited to allow…
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DDoS Extortion – Biting the DDoS Bullet
It started with a five minute long DDoS attack which established that the cybercriminals meant business and could cause impact, this small sample attack stopped all business for…
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Use QuickTime … and become part of the collective
Malformed .MOV files can murder your movies Two Borg assimilators have discovered five denial of service vulnerabilities in Apple’s QuickTime.…
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Cloudflare hiccup nudges Stack Overflow and others offline
El Reg and NewsThump also briefly vanished into the abyss Large chunks of the intertubes, including popular programmers’ hangout Stack Overflow, were blanked from view earlier this afternoon…
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Labour Party website DDoS’d by ruly democratic mob
Corbyn camp urges us to ‘get registering’ – we couldn’t agree more, Jeremy The intermineable registration process for voters for the new Labour Party leader’s election did not…
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Revisiting takedown wins: Are users in the developing world getting left behind?
We have all seen the headlines: another botnet dismantled, and we can all rest easy that the threat that has been plaguing us for all those years is…
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Hackers hid Carphone Warehouse breach with DDoS smokescreen – report
Crims aim to cause just enough chaos to get in and out Hackers reportedly swamped Carphone Warehouse with junk traffic as a smokescreen, before breaking into systems and…
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Bunitu botnet crooks sell your unencrypted VPN traffic for £££
Unknowing proxies help zombie army lurch forward Cyber-crooks behind the Bunitu botnet are selling access to infected proxy bots as a way to cash in from their network.…