How the internet was taken down by malware-infected webcams and connected toasters
Friday saw many of the web’s largest website suffer outages, when a major internet infrastructure company was struck by a large-scale distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack.
Microsoft, Europol, and FBI disrupt ZeroAccess botnet
ZeroAcces, one of the world’s largest for-hire botnets has been disrupted in a joint operation between Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) and the FBI, and led by Microsoft.
Apple Doesn’t Play Well With Others (Security And Botnet Edition)
Apple as a company has always been tight-lipped. This is what gets the rumour mill to fever pitch just before their product announcements,…
Botnet Kingpin Worked For Antivirus Firm
Microsft has spent months working to dismantle the Kelihos botnet, and has found some recent success apparently tracing the man behind the code…