“WordPress sites are being targeted in a series of attacks tied to a 20,000 botnet-strong army of infected WordPress websites. Behind the WordPress-on-WordPress assault is a widespread brute-force password attack leveraged through a Russian proxy provider and targeting a developer application prog...
“Twitter bots are becoming more sophisticated, at the same time that Trump administration officials are warning of an ongoing Russian disinformation campaign fueled by automated social media accounts. A wave of Twitter accounts are spoofing celebrity profiles, engaging in fraud and using verified ...
The botnet takedown announced Wednesday by the U.S. Department of Justice was the biggest in history, according to a security company that worked with authorities to identify the alleged criminals. Dubbed “DNS Changer,” the collection of compromised computers numbered over four million m...
The SANS Institute announced today that the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the U.S. Attorney General’s Office have won the 2011 U.S. National Cybersecurity Innovation Award for their innovative techniques in cyber law enforcement using the computer virus’ own command and control sy...
Every year, the Privacy Office of DHS presents a speaker series of outside experts. This year, they will focus on Cybersecurity and Privacy, with the first event kicking off today (26 July at 10AM). These events are open to all federal workers (employees and contractors) and qualify for continuing e...
via ITPro The Rustock botnet is now less than half the size it was in March, thanks to the Microsoft led takedown in that month. The giant spamming botnet was dealt a serious blow when Operation b107 severed the connection between Rustock’s command and control structure and hundreds of thousan...
via Extreme Tech According to a report just published by Symantec, the global volume of spam has dropped by as much as 90% over the past year – from as many as 225 billion messages per day to as few as 25 billion. While part of the drop-off has to do with a shift in […]...
via Computer Crime Research Center The FBI might be asking your permission soon to reach into your computer and rip something out. And you don’t know it’s there. In a first for US law enforcement efforts to make the Internet more secure, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has seized con...