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Spamhaus DDoS suspect used a van as a mobile office
The man suspected of participating in a large DDoS attack on an antispam organisation that caused intermittent Internet hiccups drove around Spain in a van he used as a mobile office, Spain's Interior Ministry said Sunday.
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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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SMS text spam plunges as ICO fine spooks PPI pests
The ICO's crackdown on a firm accused of sending huge amounts of payment protection insurance (PPI) SMS spam appears to have caused a marked drop in the number of unwanted messages being received by UK mobile users, figures from security firm Cloudmark show.
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Facebook tests paid messaging system including celebrities
Facebook is trialling a paid system for private messaging on its website.
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University's email blacklisted after spammers hijack student accounts
The University of Illinois has had its email domain blacklisted after phishing scammers managed to compromise the email accounts of dozens of students and staff in a short period of time, the institution has said.
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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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Black Hat Europe: Security appliances riddled with vulnerabilities, researcher warns
The majority of email and Web gateways, firewalls, remote access servers, UTM (united threat management) systems and other security appliances have serious vulnerabilities, according to a security researcher who analysed products from multiple vendors.
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FTC dumps on scammers who blasted millions of text messages
The Federal Trade Commission today said it has filed eight court cases to stop companies who have sent over 180 million illegal or deceptive text messages to all manner of mobile users in the past year.
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Security firm Trustwave targeted by phishing campaign
Customers of security firm Trustwave are being targeted by a phishing campaign that masquerades as a PCI DSS compliance scan, the company has warned.
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Mandiant report on Chinese cyberespionage used as bait in phishing attacks
Attackers are using fake versions of a recently released report about a Chinese cyberespionage group as bait in new phishing attacks that target Japanese and Chinese users.
