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.
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.
NSA planned to infect millions of users’ PCs with malware through Facebook says report
Revelations about the underhand tactics used by the NSA to track millions of innocent people continue to flow with the report from The Intercept claiming that the security agency attempted infect the computers of millions of people with malware as part of a programme called “Turbine”.
Researchers create new computer malware that infects through WiFi like the “common cold”
Researchers from Liverpool and Belfast have developed a new type of computer virus that could be as contagious as the “common cold”.