ZOMBIE ARMIES AREN’T just invading movie screens these days. They’re also taking over the Internet in the form of massive botnets. A botnet is an army of computers, all infectedRead More →
Leaky database server left exposed online is at fault.For the past few weeks, security researcher Chris Vickery has been working on discovering insecure applications and contacting the makers of thoseRead More →
he hacker did it “for the lulz,” no other reason.Anonymous have just released data online belonging to the European Space Agency (ESA). The group justified the hack as “for theRead More →
One month after the Islamic State group, also known as ISIS, ISIL or Daesh, waged a deadly terror attack on Paris, the hacktivist group Anonymous has organized a full day ofRead More →
Traded items will be “held” for days unless you have two-factor security. Account theft is a common and longstanding problem for all kinds of online gaming services, as I canRead More →
Ford committed the crimes while working at the US embassy in London A former US official has admitted stalking women and extorting sexually explicit material from them after hacking intoRead More →
UK webhosting company Easily has emailed its customers to inform them that it has fallen victim to a malware attack. COO Edwina McDowall says that the assailant is, as yet,Read More →
These are the times that we live in: the Raspberry Pi Zero comes out — a full freaking Linux computer on a chip for $5 — and people complain thatRead More →
nternet core infrastructure hit in rare cyber-attack.Unknown parties carried out a large-scale DDoS attack on the Internet’s DNS root servers, causing slight timeouts for four nodes, more exactly on theRead More →
The internet’s root servers came under a concerted distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack last week that effectively knocked three of the 13 critical pillars of the internet offline forRead More →
