The two hackers--who go under the tags dryice and frixion--were both named by Caffrey during his defense at Southwark Crown Court in London earlier this month. They were put up as the possible ...

For the second time this year, script kiddies using old tactics are bolstering their egos in the name of their countries. While Israeli and Palestinian hackers continue to duke it out in cyberspace, a ...

The internet has been the gateway to fame for many a cat, but the latest vulnerability in Drupal, the "Kitty" malware, has gained popularity for more nefarious reasons. The critical remote code ...

An apparent Russian script kiddie is converting widespread security gaps into a powerful botnet capable of launching global-scale distributed denial-of-service attacks. Cloud security firm Aqua in a ...

A surprising number of projects here are in some way influenced by the webcomic xkcd, but usually not as directly as this. Comic 350, “Network” is the tale of a very odd stickman who keeps multiple ...

A new variant of the Sasser worm has appeared, even though the worm's author was arrested in Germany last week. Antivirus companies suspect that the new virus has been written by a copycat script ...

The massive DDoS attack that disrupted the internet address-lookup service Dyn last week was perhaps pulled off by a script kiddie targeting PlayStation Network and using Mirai malware to assemble a ...