Microsoft drops claim against alleged Kelihos conspirators
Microsoft has dropped a civil suit against a suspect it alleged was backing the Kelihos botnet it moved to take down last month.
Microsoft has dropped a civil suit against a suspect it alleged was backing the Kelihos botnet it moved to take down last month.
Hackers have released a denial of service (DoS) tool that purportedly allows one computer on a standard DSL connection to knock out a web server on a 30 Gigabit link.
Customers of Telstra, AAPT, Micron 21, Pacific Internet, Verizon Australia, Macquarie Telecom, iiNet and TPG were amongst hundreds of organisations hit by the hackers that breached EMC’s security division RSA.
DigiTask, the software developer credited with building the so-called Federal Trojan used by some of nation’s law enforcement agencies, faces an anti-competition law suit from a rival software developer.
As more business smartphone users demand remote access to corporate documents, organisations need to be wary of what app makers mean when they claim their apps are “business class”.
The default settings for Apple’s new iPhone 4S personal assistant Siri allows anyone to give it commands when it’s password-locked.
Researchers at security vendor Kaspersky have discovered a version of the German R2D2 “Federal Trojan” that has a slightly longer list of targets and also supports the more secure 64-bit version of Windows.
Lookout, the company behind the most popular Android antivirus software, has released its first product for iOS iPhone and iPad devices.
US officials considered hacking the Libyan government’s military networks to black out its early warning radars.
A 26 year-old German man has been sentenced to three years imprisonment for rigging retail card payment consoles to transmit captured card details and PINs over Bluetooth.
The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation is “gradually ‘going dark’” on its telecommunications intercept capabilities, referring to the challenge law enforcement have intercepting peer-to-peer, web and Skype like communications.
Attackers using a "massive" list of sign-in IDs and password pairs successfully gained access to 93,000 accounts on Sony’s PlayStation Network, Sony Online Entertainment and Sony Entertainment Network.
Exploits targeting bugs in Adobe’s Flash Player increased by more than 40 times in the three months after April, according to Microsoft.
Bavaria and several other German states have admitted that their police have used the so-called “R2D2” Federal Trojan to spy on suspects during investigations.
European ‘hacker club’, the Chaos Computer Club, has claimed to have reverse engineered a sample of German authorities’ lawful intercept malware, Quellen-TKÜ, and found that besides eavesdropping on Skype conversations it also captures screenshots and logs keystrokes.