The FBI has seized the domains of 15 high-profile distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) websites after a coordinated effort by law enforcement and several tech companies. The orders were granted under federal seizure laws, and the domains were replaced with a federal notice. Some of the sites named in the indictments reported attacks exceeding 40 gigabits per…
One bug accidentally allowed Google to index user passwords. WordPress 5.0 users are being urged to update their CMS software to fix a number of serious bugs. The update (WordPress 5.0.1) addresses seven flaws and was issued less than a week after WordPress 5.0 was released. The most serious of the flaws is a bug…
The Australian government has passed the controversial and mind-bogglingly complex Access and Assistance Bill 2018 into law. The opposition Labor party shelved its plans to improve the scheme and waved it through in response to overwhelming pressure from the Liberal-National Coalition government, desperate to see it made law before Christmas. Since it gives authorities the right to demand access to…
A small subset of professional criminal actors is responsible for the bulk of cybercrime-related damage, employing tools and techniques as sophisticated, targeted and insidious as most nation-state actors, says the State of Cybercrime Report 2018. These sophisticated and capable criminal gangs operate largely outside of the dark web, although they may leverage low-level criminal tools occasionally…
