NASDAQ, Purloined

via Michael Riley, writing at Bloomberg Businessweek, comes the sordid tale, with film-noir-like building-blocks, of miscreant Russian nationals targeting the NASDAQ stock exchange, the kicker? They succeeded...

It's Alive!

Word, of the resurrection of the Gameover Zeus Botnet has made the news... Yes, notwithstanding the original take-down, the botnet under the bot herders' command and control facility has arisen, as plagues always do.

Ex-Parte Praedictum, IV Decies Centena Milia

This is what we need more of... via the inimitable Brian Krebs, at Krebs On Security, comes the astounding story of Microsoft Corporations' (NasdaqGS: MSFT) Big Stick, as it were; and why, in a highly orchestrated chain of events fraught (in this case, predicated upon an ex-parte restraining order) with technical errors, nearly 4,000,000 web sites have been neutralized. 

Watershed Numbers, Tech Extortion Grows

Evidence of extortion racketeering bubbles up through the flotsam of crime targeting tech sector entities , worldwide. Bad tidings, yet hardly surprising.