I have written about the FSF facing DDoS attacks several times, including on doing our part to clean up the internet and on Uptime Kuma, as well as Ian Kelling's "Our small team vs millions of bots".

In the brief history of AI security, the prompt injection has quickly become the top threat. Large language models are ...

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Microsoft, international law enforcement, and cybersecurity firms used AI to analyze and shut down the infrastructure used to run campaigns with Amadey and StealC malware in what the IT giant calls a ...

China-linked JDY botnet grew from 650 to 1,500+ hacked SOHO devices. It scans for new vulnerabilities within hours and feeds targeting data to state hackers. A covert botnet linked to Chinese ...

If Python developers have one consistent gripe about their beloved language, it tends to be this: Why is it so hard to take a Python program and deploy it as a standalone artifact, the way C, C++, ...

A newly identified malware campaign has been observed exploiting a command injection flaw in digital video recorder (DVR) devices to deploy a Mirai-based botnet, according to analysis by FortiGuard ...

The second half of 2025 marked a pivotal shift in the world of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Organizations across the globe faced a perfect storm: Artificial intelligence (AI) matured ...

WSJ’s Robert McMillan breaks down why residential proxy software is so bad, and how to check whether the malware is installed on your home network. Photo: Sean Havey The price might be right, but if ...

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The ides of security March are upon us — Qualys reports the discovery by their threat research unit of vulnerabilities in the Linux AppArmor system used by SUSE, Debian, Ubuntu, and Kubernetes as an ...

Journalist Jo Ling Kent joined CBS News in July 2023 as the senior business and technology correspondent for CBS News. Kent has more than 15 years of experience covering the intersection of technology ...