Security News

New IoT Botnet Malware Borrows From Mirai (Threatpost)
2016-11-01 16:48

IoT devices are being infected by new DDoS malware called Linux/IRCTelnet that borrows heavily from Aidra, Bashlite and Mirai.

Building the IoT monster (Help Net Security)
2016-10-31 13:45

When Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein, she imagined the misguided doctor assembling his creature from dead body parts, who instead of elevating science, created something dark and terrible. A...

Week in review: IoT, Windows code injection, new user privacy rules for ISPs (Help Net Security)
2016-10-30 19:10

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, reviews and articles: New code injection attack works on all Windows versions Researchers from security outfit enSilo have...

Understanding IoT botnets (Help Net Security)
2016-10-28 13:45

If you were online on Friday October 21st, you were probably affected by the DDoS attack against managed DNS provider Dyn. Dyn observed that tens of millions of IP addresses participating in the...