• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Oct-23-2016
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on Chinese firm admits its hacked DVRs, cameras were behind Friday’s massive DDOS attack

A Chinese electronics component manufacturer says its products inadvertently played a role in a massive cyberattack that disrupted major internet sites in the U.S. on Friday.Hangzhou Xiongmai Technology, a vendor behind DVRs and internet-connected cameras, said on Sunday that security […]

• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Oct-22-2016
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on U.S. indicts Russian for hacking LinkedIn, Dropbox, Formspring

The U.S. has charged a suspected Russian hacker with breaking into computers at LinkedIn, Dropbox and a question-and-answer site formerly known as Formspring.On Thursday, a federal grand jury indicted 29-year-old Yevgeniy Aleksandrovich Nikulin following his arrest by Czech police in Prague on […]

• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Oct-22-2016
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on U.S. indicts Russian for hacking LinkedIn, Dropbox, Formspring

The U.S. has charged a suspected Russian hacker with breaking into computers at LinkedIn, Dropbox and a question-and-answer site formerly known as Formspring.On Thursday, a federal grand jury indicted 29-year-old Yevgeniy Aleksandrovich Nikulin following his arrest by Czech police in Prague on […]

• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Oct-21-2016
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on An IoT botnet is partly behind Friday’s massive DDOS attack

Malware that can build botnets out of IoT devices is at least partly responsible for a massive distributed denial-of-service attack that disrupted U.S. internet traffic on Friday, according to network security companies.
Since Friday morning, the assault has been disrupting access to […]