2008: A year of cybercriminal innovation
With the emergence of new attack techniques and the reinvention of old ones, 2008 has been a year of cybercriminal innovation.
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iPhone and iPod touch 2.2 update addresses flaws
The vulnerabilities can be maliciously exploited to bypass certain security restrictions.
Study: Internet service providers facing more, larger threats
The scale of distributed denial of service attacks has grown 100-fold since 2001, leaving some ISPs with long outages.
Church of Scientology website hacker charged
Dmitriy Guzner, a member of the underground hacker group Anonymous, faces up to a decade in prison for his role in the DDoS hack against the Church of Scientology website.
European hackers charged with DDoS attacks in the U.S.
Two European men have been charged with hacking U.S. retail websites and causing more than $400,000 in damage through a series of distributed denial-of-service attacks in 2003.
Georgia hit by war hackers
As its conflict with Russia continues, Georgia’s government and commercial websites have been hit by multiple cyberattacks.
