Why run a DDoS-for-hire service? Easy money
Who run so-called ‘booter’ services that are used to knock out websites and are sometimes used for extortion? Young males. Why? Easy money.
Who run so-called ‘booter’ services that are used to knock out websites and are sometimes used for extortion? Young males. Why? Easy money.
Attackers exploiting the Shellshock vulnerability that was discovered in a widely used component of Mac OS X, Linux and Unix had infected by Thursday hundreds of systems with exploratory malware.
Antone Gonsalves | 26 Sep | Read more
System administrators rushing to fix the highly publicized Heartbleed vulnerability may have introduced the flaw into unaffected websites, a security researcher says.
Antone Gonsalves | 13 May | Read more
After only a few days, the Internet is still buzzing with news surrounding CVE-2014-0160, better known as the Heartbleed vulnerability. CSO has compiled the following information in order to help administrators and security teams understand the issue, determine their risks, and if needed, fix the problem.
Steve Ragan | 11 Apr | Read more
In light of overall low adoption of HTTP security headers, Mozilla is advising webmasters to at least implement X-Frame-Options on their sites, arguing that this header can prevent several types of attacks.
Lucian Constantin | 12 Dec | Read more