All posts tagged hacking

Hackers Target GMail Accounts to Influence Iranian Election
June 13, 2013 · No comments

Google says that it has prevented a "phishing attack" on tens of thousands of Iranian users, with the hackers looking to influence the outcome of the upcoming Iranian elections.

Dutchman Arrested Over Last Month’s Huge DDOS Attack
April 28, 2013 · No comments

Spanish police have reportedly arrested a 35 year old Dutchman suspected of being behind the huge web attack at the end of March that affected a number of web services around the world.

Global Botnet Attack on WordPress Powered Websites
April 13, 2013 · No comments

Websites using the Wordpress content management system have been under a huge botnet attack for the last couple of days, as hackers attempt to compromise thousands of webservers.

Why Porn Sites Are a Malware Risk
April 11, 2013 · No comments

Research shows that a number of high profile porn websites have problems with malicious advertisers attempting to install malware on users' computers, but why is this problem worse on adult websites than the wider web?

Internet Slows Worldwide Under Huge DDOS Attack
March 27, 2013 · 2 comments

People around the world have been experiencing a slower internet due to a massive denial of service attack (DDOS) targeting the domain name infrastructure.