Lizard Squad's DDoS Site Runs on Hacked Home Routers

The distributed denial of service attacks that crippled both Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network PSN shortly after the holidays came at the hands of a botnet largely comprised of hacked home routers. The botnet is managed by Lizard Squad, the group of hackers that took credit for knocking the...

Peter Zinn

In a talk titled “To Boldly Go!” Peter Zinn, Senior Cybercrime Advisor for the Dutch National High Tech Crime Unit NHTCU spoke on his agency’s battles against online crime. Zinn detailed how the NHTCU was able to apprehend the operator of the Bredolab botnet after his girlfriend posted to her...