Vladimir Tsastsin was one of seven individuals behind a $14 million click fraud operation that used the DNSChanger botnet. By Lucian Constantin An Estonian man has been sentenced to seven…
Month: April 2016
Hackers steal millions of Minecraft passwords
Hackers have stolen login data for more than seven million members of the Minecraft site Lifeboat. Lifeboat lets members run servers for customised, multiplayer maps for the smartphone edition of…
German nuclear plant hit by computer viruses
Computer viruses have infected PCs used at a German nuclear power plant. The viruses were found on office computers and in a system used to model the movement of nuclear…
US Supreme Court approves expanded hacking powers
The US Supreme Court has approved a rule change that would allow law enforcement to remotely search computers located anywhere in the US. Previously, magistrate judges could order searches only…
DDoS-ers Take Down Mitigation Tools in Q1
Imperva said it has mitigated one 50+ Mpps attack every four days on average during the quarter. Phil Muncaster Cyber-criminals turned up the heat on organizations in Q1 this year…
Spies' 'staggering' data requests revealed
Since 2005 successive Home Secretaries have authorised the collection of vast amounts of telecommunications data, documents reveal. By Chris Vallance, World at One The documents also show that MI5 secretly…