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Alleged Spamhaus DDoS attacker Sven Kamphuis arrested in Spain
The 35 year-old Dutchman accused of masterminding the worryingly vast DDoS attack that nearly swamped anti-spam organisation Spamhaus and its partners last month has been arrested in Barcelona, reports have said.
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EU Security Agency slates ISPs over 300Gb/s Spamhaus DDoS attack
March?s huge DDoS attack on Spamhaus that left service providers struggling to contain a 300Gb/s DNS reflection surge was made possible by the industry's tardiness in implementing IETF recommendations on limiting forged traffic made more than a decade ago, EU security agency ENISA has argued.
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DDoS attack against Spamhaus overhyped, says website watcher Keynote
Much of the news reporting about the massive denial-of-service attack against anti-spam service Spamhaus over the past week or so went way too far in describing it as creating a slowdown on the Internet itself, says one company monitoring website performance.
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Spamhaus hit by biggest-ever DDoS attacks
Anti-spam service Spamhaus has been hit with what several security firms today described as the largest distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks ever seen.
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Yahoo Mail app bugs may be behind Android 'botnet' spam
Botnet-not-a-botnet dustup between Microsoft and Google may have another explanation, says Lookout Security, about the Android 'botnet' spam
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Android smartphones hijacked to build first mobile botnet
Researchers have spotted evidence of what could be the first extensive global smartphone botnet running on compromised Android devices owned by subscribers in a range of developing countries.
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Microsoft launches Office 365 for Education aimed at US schools
Microsoft will launch on Wednesday a version of its Office 365 cloud collaboration and communication suite that is specifically aimed at K-12 schools and universities.
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Yahoo beefs up anti-spam defences
Yahoo said it will roll out globally this week a new antispam specification intended to make it easier for service providers to confidently discard suspicious email messages.
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Google, Microsoft and Facebook battle phishing with new specification
Major Internet companies including Google, Microsoft, and Facebook have announced a new specification to streamline the way email providers work out whether messages are part of phishing attacks using spoofed domain addresses.
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Facebook and US state government sue advertising firm
A US state attorney general announced two new lawsuits against Adscend Media, a company that allegedly has been earning $20 million (£12.7 million) a year using a Facebook scam.
