Liberia has been repeatedly cut off from the internet by hackers targeting its only link to the global network. Recurrent attacks up to 3 November flooded the cable link with…
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Could your 'smart' home be a weapon of web destruction?
Do you use a webcam to check on Tiddles the cat or Bonzo the dog while you’re at work? By Monty Munford, Technology of Business reporter If so, you could…
DDoS attack overwhelmed Dyn despite mitigation efforts
Orders of magnitude fewer devices caused the service interruptions, Dyn says. By Tim Greene Dyn says that the DDoS attack that swamped its DNS resolution service last week was backed…
Huge spam and malware network goes offline
One of the biggest networks of spam-sending computers in the world has gone quiet, puzzling experts, internet security firms have said. For years the Necurs botnet has distributed junk mail…
Password reuse bot steals creds from weak sites, logs in to banks
If your Netflix password is your banking password, you’ll get what you deserve. By Darren Pauli The perils of password re-use have been laid bare with the discovery of a…
Estonian man gets over 7 years in prison for role in global DNS hijacking botnet
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…