The Mirai Botnet Architects Are Now Fighting Crime With the FBI
In 2016 three friends created a botnet that nearly broke the internet. Now, they're helping the feds catch cybercriminals of all stripes. The three college-age defendants behind the the Mirai botnet—an online tool that wreaked destruction across the internet in the fall of 2016 with powerful distributed denial of service attacks—will stand in an Alaska courtroom Tuesday and ask for a novel ruling
Can This New Encryption Method Finally Crack the Crypto War?
Ray Ozzie thinks he has an approach for accessing encrypted devices that attains the impossible: It satisfies both law enforcement and privacy purists. Ray Ozzie in his backyard, overlooking Manchester Bay in Massachusetts.Cole Wilson On December 2, 2015, a man named Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, opened fire on employees of the Department of Public Health in San Bernardino, Cali
The Dark Web’s Favorite Currency Is Less Untraceable Than It Seems
As discerning dark web drug dealers and pseudonymous hackers have figured that Bitcoin is not magically private money, many have turned to Monero, a digital coin that promises a far higher degree of anonymity and untraceability baked into its design. But one group of researchers has found that Monero's privacy protections, while better than Bitcoin's, still aren’t the cloak of invisibility they mi
Researchers Point to an AMD Backdoor—And Face Their Own Backlash
As an Israeli security firm outlines real flaws in AMD's chips, the security community questions its motivations. When the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities were revealed in millions of processors earlier this year, those deep-seated vulnerabilities rattled practically the entire computer industry. Now a group of Israeli researchers is outlining a new set of chip-focused vulnerabilities that, i
GitHub Survived the Biggest DDoS Attack Ever Recorded
On Wednesday, a 1.3Tbps DDoS attack pummeled GitHub for 15-20 minutes. Here's how it stayed online. On Wednesday, at about 12:15 pm EST, 1.35 terabits per second of traffic hit the developer platform GitHub all at once. It was the most powerful distributed denial of service attack recorded to date—and it used an increasingly popular DDoS method, no botnet required. GitHub briefly struggled with in
Snowden's New App Turns Your Phone Into a Home Security System
The NSA leaker's latest project aims to secure your computer—and you—from not just digital but physical attacks. Your digital security, any sufficiently paranoid person will remind you, is only as good as your physical security. The world's most sensitive users of technology, like dissidents, activists, or journalists in repressive regimes, have to fear not just hacking and online surveillance, bu
How a Dorm Room 'Minecraft' Scam Brought Down the Internet
A DDoS attack that crippled the internet wasn't the work of a nation-state. It was three college kids working an online gaming hustle. The most dramatic cybersecurity story of 2016 came to a quiet conclusion Friday in an Anchorage courtroom, as three young American computer savants pleaded guilty to masterminding an unprecedented botnet—powered by unsecured internet-of-things devices like security
He Perfected a Password-Hacking Tool—Then the Russians Came Calling
Five years ago, Benjamin Delpy walked into his room at the President Hotel in Moscow, and found a man dressed in a dark suit with his hands on Delpy's laptop. Just a few minutes earlier, the then 25-year-old French programmer had made a quick trip to the front desk to complain about the room's internet connection. He had arrived two days ahead of a talk he was scheduled to give at a nearby securit
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