News (101)

  • Symantec: Botnets on the rise in Asia

    More computers in the Asia-Pacific region are being hijacked and used remotely by hackers to send viruses, according to a recent study by security vendor Symantec.

  • Researchers infiltrate denial of service networks

    Security researchers have been infiltrating denial of service 'botnets' to study what may be an unstoppable Distributed Denial of Service (DoS) technique.

  • Google's Blogger number one for malware

    Search giant Google has catapulted itself to the top in the ranks of web hosts with the most malware, courtesy of its blogging website Blogger, according to security vendor Sophos.

  • A million zombies threaten US national security

    More than a million PCs under the control of spammers are threatening the US national security, its economy and its information infrastructure, according to the FBI.

  • AOL IM bot cloaked in encryption

    America Online on Monday said it is blocking malicious links tied to a recently discovered bot that uses encryption to increase the range of its targets and make eradication more difficult.

  • Microsoft takes on spam zombies

    Hoping to turn the tide on spam zombies, Microsoft has filed suit against entities it said used compromised PCs to send millions of junk e-mail messages.

  • ZombieMeter keeps tabs on hacked PCs

    Internet security company CipherTrust on Thursday breathed life into its ZombieMeter, a new system that tracks traffic from compromised PCs around the world.

  • Police investigate suspected online gambling extortion ring

    Computer crime authorities in Russia and the UK have arrested three men, suspected of running a major extortion ring accused of blackmailing online sports betting Web sites.

  • 'Zombie' PCs caused Web outage, says Akamai

    The attack that blacked out Google, Yahoo and other major Web sites earlier this week involved the use of a "bot net"--a large network of zombified home PCs--Internet infrastructure provider Akamai Technologies said Wednesday.

  • Trojan alert: 'David Beckham' recruits zombies

    A new attempt to entice users to fall victim to a Trojan horse has been discovered by antivirus firm Sophos, after it was posted on a swathe of Internet news groups over the weekend.

  • ISPs recruited by government to kill zombies

    Five Internet Service Providers have been recruited by the government to hunt down virus-infected computers used to send spam or launch DDoS attacks from Australia.

  • ISPs asked to help clean up Sober worm

    Internet service providers were urged on Monday to check their user traffic patterns to locate and shut down machines infected with the mass-mailing Sober worm.

  • Lycos launches anti-spam zombie army

    Lycos is nurturing its own zombie army in a bid to bring down the world's most notorious spammers - with a screensaver called 'Make love not spam'.

  • Dutch police nab suspected 'bot herders'

    Dutch police have arrested three individuals suspected of hacking into more than 100,000 computers worldwide and using the hijacked systems in online crimes.

  • Botnets and spyware still on the rise

    Personal computers that play unwitting host to zombie code are proliferating at a startling pace, according to a new report.

12345Next >

Create an e-mail alert for "attack"
ZDNet Australia Alerts is an e-mail alert service which provides personalised news, features and reviews to readers’ inbox on an hourly, daily and weekly basis.
Alert:
attack


Frequency: *

Filter Tags

  1. Popularity: 4 adware
  2. Popularity: 3 antivirus
  3. Popularity: 3 army
  4. Popularity: 4 attacks
  5. Popularity: 3 auscert
  6. Popularity: 3 bagle
  7. Popularity: 4 bot
  8. Popularity: 17 botnet
  9. Popularity: 4 computer
  10. Popularity: 3 crime
  11. Popularity: 21 ddos
  12. Popularity: 3 denial
  13. Popularity: 5 denial of service
  14. Popularity: 3 denial of service attacks
  15. Popularity: 7 dos
  16. Popularity: 4 e-mail
  17. Popularity: 4 email
  18. Popularity: 3 encryption
  19. Popularity: 8 european union
  20. Popularity: 3 exploit
  21. Popularity: 3 firewalls
  22. Popularity: 3 flaw
  23. Popularity: 3 google
  24. Popularity: 3 hack
  25. Popularity: 6 hacker
  26. Popularity: 6 hackers
  27. Popularity: 6 hacking
  28. Popularity: 3 infect
  29. Popularity: 6 internet
  30. Popularity: 3 isp
  31. Popularity: 4 lycos
  32. Popularity: 9 malware
  33. Popularity: 3 microsoft
  34. Popularity: 4 patch
  35. Popularity: 3 phishing
  36. Popularity: 22 security
  37. Popularity: 3 service
  38. Popularity: 3 software
  39. Popularity: 8 sophos
  40. Popularity: 16 spam
  41. Popularity: 5 spyware
  42. Popularity: 5 storm
  43. Popularity: 5 symantec
  44. Popularity: 3 threat
  45. Popularity: 21 trojan
  46. Popularity: 29 virus
  47. Popularity: 3 viruses
  48. Popularity: 6 windows
  49. Popularity: 17 worm
  50. Popularity: 3 xp

Latest Videos

Sponsored content

Power Centre - Content from our premier sponsors

Blogs

  • David Braue NBN needs workers on board
    Without consensus on labour issues, the eventual winner of the NBN may end up as little more than a lame duck and a cashed-up symbol of the conflict between the desire for progress and the lack of mechanisms to deliver it.
  • Array D'Ascenzo: Read p23 of security review
    Following yesterday's admission by the Australian Taxation Office that its courier had lost a CD containing the details of 3,000 self-managed super funds, it wants to review how it handles information. My suggestion: go back to the review completed in April.
  • Array Opening the floodgates on missing drives
    News headlines about portable storage devices going missing are as common as muck, but the problem could be even more widespread than you suspect.
  • More blogs »

Back to top

Featured