[ad] The latest news is a few million Chinese Internet users had trouble accessing any websites yesterday due to a DDoS attack on the DNS system from one of the countries registrars. It just shows that China has an inherently weak infrastructure if such a large portion of people can be disrupted with an attack […]
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Malware Distributor & Bot Network Master Sentenced To 4 Years
[ad] It seems to the feds are really cracking down on cybercrime recently, with a special kind of attention paid to botnets and their handlers. The sentences are getting stiffer too, this time with 4 years in prison for running a botnet and data theft. I hope they keep it up, botnets are the scourge […]
Kyrgyzstan Taken Offline by Huge Denial of Service Attack
[ad] Isn’t it amazing in this day and age an entire country can be knocked offline by Denial of Service attacks! You’d have though it wouldn’t happen any more. I do remember the days when it was fairly easy to take one of the smaller ISPs out in UK, so I guess the infrastructure of […]
Dshocker AKA Aush0k Hacker Pleads Guilty to Computer Felonies
[ad] Another teen hacker in the news, this guy looks like he has some formidable skills though with the list of crimes he’s perpetrated. He’s pleaded guilty though, so he should get a reduced sentence and he’s still classified as a juvenile offender being only 17 – so that works in his favour too. A […]
New Sophisticated Botnets Discovered
[ad] It seems like botnets are getting more sophisticated – we thought the Storm Worm was pretty hot, but some of these new contenders are showing the guys on the dark side has some advanced understanding of technology and the architecture many companies use…this enables them to get deeper inside and remain undetected Researchers have […]