CNN reports on an organized attempt to prepare for a large-scale distributive attack. A large-scale cyberattack drill was carried out last Thursday at around 9 a.m. ET. The “Quantum Dawn 2” exercise coordinated by Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA...

One in five UK businesses were struck by DDoS attacks in 2012. Analytics firm Neustar have recently released a report which reveals twenty-two percent of UK businesses experienced a DDoS attack in 2012. This number is still lower than the 35 percent of US firms who reported...

Hackers are taking legitimate Android apps and turning them into trojans. Researchers have uncovered and released the details of an exploit code that lets hackers convert legitimate Android apps into malicious trojans. The exploit centers around the way legitimate Android a...

FIS is now under fire for inaccurate reporting of the 2011 hacking incident. In 2011, hackers broke in to the banking giant Fidelity National Information Services (FIS). The initial report by FIS on the matter to the SEC stated that “7,170 prepaid accounts may have been at ...

Attackers are targeting phone lines in order to cripple communications. We all have heard of the rising threats of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks and how damaging they can be for financial institutions. What you may not have heard about are the lesser known te...

Layering your defenses does help, but it’s not a guarantee. Although the results from the University of Michigan research in 2008 found that using multiple antivirus protection software resulted in better protection than a single program alone, recent analysis by NSS Labs ...

The site operator insists the FBI is working with him. “This is not illegal,” says the owner of a website responsible for DDoS attacks on other websites in exchange for payment. The DDoS-for-hire site named ragebooter.net is just one of many openly accepting outside request...