Ideological motivation has emerged as the primary driver for distributed denial of services (DDoS) attacks, outstripping the previous dominant drivers of financial gain.

Wholesale IP transit and datacentre provider, Vocus Communications has joined Arbor Networks’ cloud signalling coalition (CSC) which brings together service providers, datacentre operators and enterprises.

According to the latest survey, private sector critical infrastructure all around the world is concerned about cyber threats but not well-prepared to deal with them.

Last week's playable Pac-Man Google Doodle caused a lot of Firefox users to wonder why their browsers were suddenly playing strange beepy music. Enough of them turned to Mozilla support to nearly bring down the support servers.

A spokesperson for the loose coalition of individuals who attacked Federal Government websites this week to protest against the internet filtering policy today acknowledged some thought the attacks were juvenile, but said they sent more of a message than “signing a petition”.

Today's release of the report "In the Crossfire: Critical Infrastructure in the Age of Cyberwar" by McAfee Inc. paints a very grim picture of a perpetual war in cyberspace

Australian hosted recruitment software provider, RecruitAdvantage, is presently facing a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on its online TurboRecruit product. The company has taken parts of its sites offline, affecting customers and jobseekers nationwide.

Last night's attack on the Federal Government's websites was a fizzer, but somewhere along the line, the attacker was attacked.

Fresh from their battle with the Church of Scientology, the hacking group known as Anonymous has turned its sights on the Federal Government in a bid to kill off the internet filtering initiative.  Let battle commence.

According to a South Korean government official, cyberattackers have renewed their assault on seven websites in that country, including one that belongs to the government.