Highlighting the rampant fear of attacks these days, there were claims that the 'Armada' copycat DDoS extortionists made $100,000 without actually launching an attack – or even having the ability to do so.
David Braue | 04 May | Read more
The Ashley Madison postmortem continued, with Trend Micro uncovering apparent spams that were being used by the company in conjunction with fake user profiles – and some suggesting that the way the firm's developers had stored sensitive credentials allowed hackers to slip past their defences and crack 11.2 million passwords. Such source-code analysis is proving to be a treasure trove for hackers, with one cyberespionage group caught borrowing code from a leaked online banking Trojan.
David Braue | 14 Sep | Read more