Hacking group Lizard Squad has claimed responsibility for taking the UK National Crime Agency’s website offline on Tuesday morning in what appears to be revenge for the arrest six customers who paid for its botnet.
The idea of ethical hacking is hardly new, but what do you call it when unethical hackers are breached by unethical hackers? This was just one of many questions raised as Italian surveillance software developer Hacking Team was breached, with more than 400GB of internal documents published online providing a treasure trove of information.
David Braue | 13 Jul | Read more
Incapsula detects 40,000-node botnet exploiting poorly-configured Ubiquiti routers
John E Dunn | 14 May | Read more
Mega-bust dragnet
John E Dunn | 08 Mar | Read more
Australia's information-security posture is |weak by world standards, according to one of many recent vendor studies that found overseas CSOs rated the maturity of their security processes rather higher than those here. It can't help that more than one quarter of security budget is being wasted on software that sits unused, figuratively, on the shelf rather than being actively utilised.
David Braue | 02 Feb | Read more
News of North Korea's Internet outage was widely covered in the media on Monday of this week, and while a number of questions remain about what happened and who was responsible, speculation has it that North Korea was hit by a DDoS attach."
Ofer Gayer | 24 Dec | Read more