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How Hackers Hid a Money-Mining Botnet in Amazon’s Cloud

Hackers have long used malware to enslave armies of unwitting PCs, but security researchers Rob Ragan and Oscar Salazar had a different thought: Why steal computing power from innocent victims when...

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Research Shows Increase in Internet Filtering and Usage of FireChat App in Iraq

Researchers at Citizen Lab have taken a close look at the extent of Internet filtering in Iraq, as well as the security of a popular offline chat app used there, and found an increase in the number of...

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Phony Googlebots Becoming a Real DDoS Attack Tool

Phony Googlebots are being used with greater frequency to launch and carry out application-layer denial-of-service attacks.

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The App I Used to Break Into My Neighbor’s Home

When I broke into my neighbor’s home earlier this week, I didn’t use any cat burglar skills. I don’t know how to pick locks. I’m not even sure how to use a crowbar. It turns out all anyone needs to...

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Gauntlt – Security Testing Framework For Developers & Ops

Gauntlt provides hooks to a variety of security tools and puts them within reach of security, dev and ops teams to collaborate to build rugged software. It is built to facilitate testing and...

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Linux containers made easy

In the past I have praised FreeBSD for having a built-in feature called jails. A jail, in the BSD realm, is a type of virtualization or isolation technology which is about halfway between a full...

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Resources for learning about computer forensics

Sifting-through-the-wreckage asks: I’ve been seeing forensic distributions being announced or updated recently. At work I’ve installed SIFT Linux from the SANS Institute. I’m far from an expert but it...

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