One of the biggest ever web attacks – in which more than one terabit of data was fired at a website to knock it offline – has been reported. Web hosting company OVH said it had been attacked by a botnet (zombie army) of hacked devices such as webcams. The previous largest attack was thought […]

The security of the UK’s biggest internet service providers needs “major improvement”, according to one expert. Security consultant Paul Moore examined the publicly available information of the UK’s six biggest ISPs. He said he found plenty of bugs that could be exploited by hackers. But he said most ISPs had been in contact with him […]