Archive for September 2012
Microsoft Wins Victory Over Botnet Domain
Microsoft scored a legal victory this week on its assault against botnets after a court gave them the OK to seize a domain associated with the Nitol Botnet.
Read MoreGoDaddy Says Router Issues, Not hackers, Were Responsible for Outages
The outages at GoDaddy this Monday which knocked millions of websites offlinewere caused by internal problems not hackers the company said on Tuesday.
Read MoreApp Firm Source Of Apple Data Breach
BlueToad, a Florida based firm that creates digital and mobile publications says it is the likely source of a security breach which resulted in the leak of personal data from as many as 12 million Apple iPhone and iPad users.
Read MoreGoDaddy Hit By Massive DNS Attack
A lone hacker has claimed responsibility for the attack on GoDaddy which may have knocked out millions of websites.
Read MoreBotmaster Gets 30 Months in Jail
A Botnet master receives a 30 month jail for selling access to 72,000 computers.
Read MoreFacebook Fraud – False Likes, False Followers
Increasing issues surrounding false likes and followers made by accounts set up just for this purpose.
Read MoreSpear Phishing an old tactic using new distribution?
Phishing using data URI’s embedded in websites distributed using URL shortening services.
Read MoreFuture Wars Fought in Cyber Space?
USA General admits to cyber attacks in the middle east, we look at the history of cyber warfare.
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