An Alaskan court has handed one of the Mirai authors a huge fine.
Tag Archives: Denial of Service
FBI wants to keep “helpful” Mirai botnet authors around
The young men behind the powerful IoT device botnet have been working undercover with law enforcement since they were first fingered.
Teen hacker admits to SWATting schools, airline flight
The teenager made bomb threats to schools, and to a flight between the UK and San Francisco while it was in mid-air.
Serious Security: How to stop dodgy HTTP headers clogging your website
It’s been dubbed ReDos, for Regular Expression Denial of Service – where a few rogue HTTP requests could clog your whole site.
Your smart air conditioner could contribute to mass power outages
Researchers call the scenario BlackIoT: an IoT botnet of high-wattage devices that could crash the power grid.
Guilty! Court sinks children’s hospital attacker found stranded on a boat
Martin Gottesfeld set off DDoS attacks against hospitals in #opJustina, fled the country in a boat, and had to be rescued by a Disney ship.
Staff dust off their typewriters after malware attack
Malware has taken down systems in at least two Alaskan municipalities in an attack that officials say is the worst they have ever seen.
So long! ‘The internet’s most inept criminal’ goes to jail
The FBI took six months to track him down – what they found was a disturbed hacker with “no skills”.
Oh the irony! When cybercriminals are rubbish at cybersecurity
The Owari DDoS botnet, built by knocking over weakly-secured Internet of Things (IoT) devices, has had a bad week.
Cloudflare mistakes own 1.1.1.1 DNS for DDoS attack
When is a DDoS attack not a DDoS attack? When it’s caused by your own recently-launched DNS service.