attacks

The content delivery network tapped its resources to produce the first of what will be an ongoing look at the Internet on a quarterly basis.

Security researcher Dancho Danchev cited numerous examples of high profile websites hit by attackers, believed to be part of the infamous Russian Business Network.

Phishing attacks in the U.S. rose in 2007 as $3.2 billion was lost to these attacks, according to a survey by Gartner.The survey found that 3.6 million adults lost money in phishing attacks in the 12 months ending August 2007, as compared with 2.3 million who did so the previous year. Phishing attacks were more successful in 2007 than they were in the past two years. Of those who received phishing emails in 2007, 3.3 percent said they lost money because of the attack, compared with 2.3 percent who lost money in 2006, and 2.9 percent who did so in 2006.

The Metasploit Framework will have iPhone support soon. If that doesn't mean much to you, consider that some people who use Metasploit for security research may use what they find for malicious purposes.

Longtime Hollywood insider and Variety editor in chief Peter Bart took on the blogosphere and the rights of bloggers with a decidedly negative take; a pair of movie bloggers took him to the editing room and trimmed him down to size.

This time it is the UK-based Daily Telegraph that is complaining about a need to protect their content from search engines.

Denial of Service (DoS) attacks are becoming a more and more common way to bring websites and servers down.

The social media concept has been in full swing ever since the recent Las Vegas PubCon. While the search industry was well aware...