Sometimes, those of us in the computer biz get so wrapped up in the techie details that we forget that many people don’t know what we think are the basics. For example, a really smart, computer-savvy ...

Distributed denial of service attacks are becoming more powerful, but the Departments of Commerce and Homeland Security have urged agencies to lead by example in combating them. Phil Goldstein is a ...

It is a group of computers that have been taken over by criminal botherders. Instead of rounding up sheep, these crooks round up computers and use them for illegal purposes. The term stands for robot ...

The Broadside botnet is targeting shipping companies in a campaign focused on ensnaring TBK DVR devices vulnerable to ...

In just three months, the massive Aisuru botnet launched more than 1,300 distributed denial-of-service attacks, one of them ...

Smart city devices have the potential to be hacked and used against the very cities that deployed them. Here’s how that threat can be mitigated. Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family ...

Despite being the subject of an international takedown operation last year, traces of the Andromeda botnet can still be found on many PCs. The Andromeda botnet was associated with 80 different malware ...

Security researchers at Fortinet’s FortiGuard Labs have identified a new Mirai-based botnet called ShadowV2 that quietly ...

A newly discovered network botnet comprising an estimated 30,000 webcams and video recorders—with the largest concentration in the US—has been delivering what is likely to be the biggest ...

Botnets: A cheat sheet for business users and security admins Your email has been sent When a computer or any other device is connected to the internet, it runs a lot of risks from malware and hackers ...

Security researchers have discovered a new botnet that has been attacking Windows systems running a Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) connection exposed to the Internet. Discovered by Renato Marinho of ...

Shortly after ShadowV2’s test run, Azure was hit with the “largest-ever” cloud-based DDOS attack, carried out by the Aisuru botnet - which is also considered a “descendent” of Mirai and is sometimes ...