A US-based man has pleaded guilty to creating a giant botnet that was used to disrupt access to much of the web in October 2016. The Mirai malware also caused…
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Dell web address swiped by third party
A web address used by recovery software on Dell PCs was taken over by a third-party after a contractor apparently failed to renew it. Dell’s software checks in with the…
Equifax had 'admin' as login and password in Argentina
The credit report provider Equifax has been accused of a fresh data security breach, this time affecting its Argentine operations. Cyber-crime blogger Brian Krebs said that an online employee tool…
Minecraft link to net's biggest botnet
Malware that launched the net’s largest ever cyber-attack last year had links to Minecraft servers, according to those investigating it. Security blogger Brian Krebs has spent months investigating the attack…
Army of webcams used in net attacks
One of the biggest ever web attacks – in which more than one terabit of data was fired at a website to knock it offline – has been reported. Web…
Krebs Website Offline After Akamai Withdraws DDoS Protection
Krebs’ site hit by huge DDoS attack this week. By Steve Evans Brian Krebs’s KrebsOnSecurity.com website has been knocked offline after Akamai Technologies stopped protecting it from a sustained DDoS…