Security News

Data breaches and bots are driving cybercrime surge (Help Net Security)
2015-11-13 07:21

From July to September, ThreatMetrix detected more than 90 million attempted attacks across industries, representing a 20 percent increase over the previous quarter. This increase in attacks can large...

A Study in Bots: DiamondFox (Reddit)
2015-10-28 16:36

Attackers are turning MySQL servers into DDoS bots (Help Net Security)
2015-10-28 15:34

Someone has been compromising MySQL servers around the world and using them to mount DDoS attacks. The latest targets of these attacks are an (unnamed) US hosting provider and a Chinese IP address. ...

NSA? Illegal spying? Europe's head lawyer is talking out of his Bot, says US government (The Register)
2015-09-29 08:16

Hackers upload bot code to Imgur in 8Chan attack (The Register)
2015-09-23 12:03

Pro-Government Twitter Bots Try to Hush Mexican Activists (WIRED)
2015-08-23 13:39

A man built a Twitter bot that automatically entered and won 1,000 contests (Yahoo Security)
2015-08-13 14:23

Planning Your Bot Management Program (InfoRiskToday)
2015-07-30 10:18

Google, Yahoo, Facebook team up in fight against bad ad bots (ZDNet)
2015-07-22 11:12

The Moose is loose: Linux-based worm turns routers into social network bots (ArsTechnica)
2015-05-26 18:11