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.
How to stop your phone from being hacked
Your mobile number is all a hacker needs to read your texts, listen to your calls and even track your whereabouts.
Security researcher releases 10 million username and password combinations ‘for research’
A security researcher has released the usernames and passwords from 10 million real user accounts online for ‘research purposes’.
Sophisticated state-sponsored malware ‘Regin’ discovered by tech security firm Symantec
A new and sophisticated piece of malware that targets infrastructure operators government organisations has been discovered by security firm Symantec.



