DDoS Attacker Who Ruined Gamers' Christmas Gets 27 Months in Prison

The Hacker News Daily Updates Cybersecurity - A Short Business Guide The best thing you can do for your business is to have a security-first mentality. Download Now Sponsored LATEST NEWS Jul 5, 2019 DDoS Attacker Who Ruined Gamers' Christmas Gets 27 Months in Prison A 23-year-old hacker from Utah who launched a series of DDoS attacks against multiple online services, websites, and online gaming companies between December 2013 and January 2014 has been sentenced to 27 months in prison. Austin Thompson, a.k.a. "DerpTroll," pledged guilty back in November 2018 ... Read More 17-Year-Old Weakness in Firefox Let HTML File Steal Other Files From Device Except for phishing and scams, downloading an HTML attachment and opening it locally on your browser was never considered as a severe threat until a security researcher today demonstrated a technique that could allow attackers to steal files stored on a victim's computer. Barak Tawily, an ... Read More D-Link Agrees to 10 Years of Security Audits to Settle FTC Charges Taiwanese networking equipment manufacturer D-Link has agreed to implement a "comprehensive software security program" in order to settle a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) lawsuit alleging that the company didn't take adequate steps to protect its consumers from hackers. Your wireless router is the ... Read More China's Border Guards Secretly Installing Spyware App on Tourists' Phones Chinese authorities are secretly installing surveillance apps on smartphones of foreigners at border crossings in the Xinjiang region who are entering from neighboring Kyrgyzstan, an international investigation revealed. Xinjiang (XUAR) is an autonomous territory and home to many Muslim ethnic ... Read More AppTrana — Website Security Solution That Actually Works Data loss and theft continues to rise, and hardly a day goes by without significant data breaches hit the headlines. In January 2019 alone, 1.76 billion records were leaked, and according to IBM's Data Breach study, the average cost of each lost or stolen record has reached about $148. Most of ... Read More Cybersecurity - A Short Business Guide The best thing you can do for your business is to have a security-first mentality. Download Now Sponsored This email was sent to balvistudio4.raaj@blogger.com. You are receiving this newsletter because you opted-in to receive relevant communications from The Hacker News. To manage your email newsletter preferences, please click here. Contact The Hacker News: info@thehackernews.com Unsubscribe The Hacker News | Pearls Omaxe, Netaji Subash Place, Pitampura, Delhi 110034 India