TDR

Updated! Matt Harrigan, CEO of PacketSled, resigned his position today after being suspended for having posted threatening messaged against President-Elect Trump on social media.

One thing about the 2016 U.S. presidential election—it hasn't been boring.

Last week we took the 100,000 foot level view of the relatively new floki bot. This bot - allegedly modeled after Zeus 2.0.8.9 is selling in the underground marketplaces for around $1,000.

Financial malware is a threat that seems to make headlines almost every month. Studies indicate that cybercrime is the only economic crime to have seen an increase this year, rising sharply, and landing the second rank on the list of the most reported economic crimes globally.

Cybercriminals are only getting more insidious in their methods of attack and the impact on organizations is increasingly harmful. But, holding off incursions can be achieved with user education and tested strategies.

Corero Network Security today disclosed a zero-day distributed denial of service attack (DDoS) technique, observed in the wild, that is capable of amplifying malicious traffic by a factor of as much as 55x.

Friday's DDoS attacks that created major website outages across the Internet may prove to be a watershed moment for the Internet of Things industry, after years of warnings - mostly ignored - about the glaring vulnerabilities in IoT devices.

Microsoft on Friday warned of a malware threat called Hicurdismos that simulates the infamous Windows Blue Screen of Death as part of a tech support scam.