Cyberstalking, pig masks, and cockroaches: Former eBay execs are sentenced

The former Senior Director of Safety & Security at eBay, and the companys former Director of Global Resiliency, have been sentenced to prison for their roles in a cyberstalking campaign. The targets of the campaign were the editor and publisher of a newsletter that eBay executives viewed as...

Dutch Teens Arrested for Cyberattacks on Mastercard and Visa

A Dutch hacker collective called Revspace aims to "re-educate" Dutch teens suspected of cyberattacks against Mastercard, Visa, and the Dutch National Prosecutors Office, transforming them into "ethical hackers." Last week, Dutch police arrested a 16-year-old boy for participating in web attacks...

Tips for Diminishing Botnet Attacks

Online, the biggest battle these days is against botnets: networks of infected computers which hackers can use — unbeknownst to the machine’s owner — for online crimes including sending out spam or launching a denial of service attack. The black-hat techniques employed to snare users into a botne...