Why Isn't Cybercrime Worse?

Bank robbers have a clear motivation for their crimes: money. It’s there for the taking; all you have to do is get to it. But there are a lot of inherent risks involved with robbing banks, and, as a new study shows, not a great deal of return. And yet people keep robbing banks. In cybercrime, the...

What Have We Learned: Flame Malware

When the news about the Flame malware first broke several weeks ago, people from all parts of the security community, political world and elsewhere quickly began trying to figure out what the significance of the tool was and whether it represented anything new. That was difficult at the time, giv...

Flame Malware Raises Need for Open Talk on Use of Cyberweapons

The discovery of the Flame malware has raised a number of questions, some mundane, some interesting and many unanswerable at this point. But the point that’s most interesting also is the one that likely will go unaddressed for the foreseeable future, and that is, the need for a serious, open...

Where To Buy Your Tools From Hackers ?

Software that facilitates the attack by beginners online scammers and the future is big business anarchists, says Karlin Lillington The suites are equipped with new software with all the trappings of modern software now offers: cloud computing hosting, software as a service SaaS functions,...

CVE-2000-0138

A system has a distributed denial of service DDOS attack master, agent, or zombie installed, such as 1 Trinoo, 2 Tribe Flood Network TFN, 3 Tribe Flood Network 2000 TFN2K, 4 stacheldraht, 5 mstream, or 6 shaft...