Pay per-install adware campaign boosted the botnet via phishing messages.
Tesla Debuts Bug Bounty Program
The program will pay researchers up to $1,000 for disclosing vulnerabilities the Tesla web domains.
China Believed to Be Behind Largest-Ever US Government Hack
4 million records on federal employees are believed to be compromised, in an effort to build a massive database on American citizens.
Russia Blamed for Data Stealing Attack on German Parliament
Bundestag hack last month exposed 20,000 lawmakers’ accounts
Plex Mounts Huge DigiCert Encryption Install for Media Streaming
DigiCert will address tens of millions of Plex accounts—making it one of the largest implementations of publicly trusted certificates to date.
#infosec15: DLP Player GeoLang Voted UK’s Most Innovative Small Cyber Security Business
Competition final at Infosecurity Europe shows strength of UK cyber industry
#infosec15: Under Cyber-Attack? Follow CERT UK’s Lead
Plan, plan, plan and then plan some more to build cyber-resilience, say experts
#infosec15: Threat Intelligence Industry Set for Major Consolidation
Experts claim consolidation beckons, as tools get increasingly powerful
Q1 2015 DDoS Attacks Spike, Targeting Cloud
The most-attacked industry was the IT services/cloud/SaaS sector, representing more than one-third of all mitigation activity.
ICO Data Breach Investigations Spike Threefold
All of the major UK banks and lenders have “reported multiple incidents to the ICO in the last two years.”