'Anonymous' hackers jailed for infamous DDoS campaign
A student at Northampton University and a man from south London have been jailed for taking part in an unsophisticated but effective 2010 DDoS rampage that reportedly cost PayPal £3.5 million ($5.6...
View ArticleUPnP flaws expose 50 million devices to attack, researchers find
Millions of consumer devices using the ubiquitous Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) protocol, including routers, printers, media servers and webcams, are vulnerable to a cocktail of dangerous security...
View ArticleHacker 'sextorted' 350 women into stripping off after stealing embarrassing...
The FBI has arrested a man accused of stealing personal information from the online accounts of 350 women in order to ‘sextort’ them into stripping off so he could take nude pictures via webcam.
View ArticleNorth Korean YouTube propaganda blocked after Call of Duty complaint
A lurid video posted last week by North Korea showing an imaginary attack on a US city has been removed by YouTube after games giant Activision objected to the regime’s use of footage from Call of Duty.
View ArticleAVG finds 11-year-old creating malware to steal game passwords
Security firm AVG thinks it has spotted a disturbing new threat in its latest threat report - children with enough programming skills to code and distribute their own malware.
View ArticleGeorge Bush emails hacked after attacker targets friends and family
An audacious hacker has posted a large cache of photographs and emails stolen from the email accounts of friends and relatives of former presidents George FW Bush and his son George W Bush,...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi gets hit Minecraft game with code editing
Applications matter for platforms but Minecraft matters more than most. The Raspberry Pi was invented to encourage youngsters to take up coding, but having the hit indie game as a lure won’t hurt.
View ArticleReveton 'police ransom' malware gang head arrested in Dubai
A Russian man accused of being a key figure behind the notorious and hugely successful Reveton ‘police ransom’ malware that blackmailed thousands of PC users across the world has been arrested in...
View ArticleLulzSec turncoat 'Sabu' dodges sentencing for second time
Former LulzSec hacktivist turned supergrass ‘Sabu’ has dodged sentencing for a second time, presumably as a reward for his past or continued cooperation with the US Government.
View ArticleCybercriminal teen hacked prison mainframe while taking IT course
One of the UK’s most skilled and successful convicted cybercriminals was allegedly able to hack into his prison’s mainframe after being allowed to take an IT course, an industrial tribunal hearing has...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi Foundation hit by grudge DDoS attack
The tiny Raspberry Pi Foundation website and forum has been hit by two short but nasty DDoS attacks in the last week, the second attack flurry that has targeted the organisation since last summer,...
View ArticleAntivirus software fails to spot new malware, Palo Alto finds
A significant chunk of new malware is not spotted by antivirus programs with some threats remaining a mystery for as long as a month, an analysis of large enterprises by firewall vendor Palo Alto...
View ArticleGoogle Play apps used to hide 'BadNews' mobile botnet, security firm discovers
Google’s Play store security has once again been embarrassed by the discovery of an ambitious botnet that sneaked past its app vetting systems to infect possibly huge numbers of Android users.
View ArticleWindows XP migration worries exaggerated by 'dead' applications
Many organisations exaggerate the difficulties of migrating from Windows XP to Windows 7 by over-estimating the importance of little-used applications, a survey from consultancy Centrix Software has...
View ArticlePhishing gang jailed for plundering woman's £1 million life savings
A heartless phishing gang that stole and frittered a British woman's entire £1 million ($1.6 million) life savings on items including "gold and cheeseburgers" have been handed heavy sentences by a...
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