Italian man deliberately infects 32 women with HIV, gets 24 years in jail

Published time: 28 Oct, 2017 04:31 Edited time: 28 Oct, 2017 05:14 An HIV-infected man has been sentenced to 24 years in prison for deliberately passing on the virus to over 30 women after luring his victims via online platforms to have unprotected sex with him. On Friday, the Court of Appeal of Rome found […]

One of 1st-known Android DDoS malware infects phones in 100 countries

Enlarge (credit: portal gda) Last year, a series of record-setting attacks hitting sites including KrebsOnSecurity and a French Web host underscored a new threat that had previously gone overlooked: millions of Internet-connected digital video recorders and similar devices that could easily be wrangled into botnets that challenged the resources of even large security services. Now, […]

Norovirus OUTBREAK: School closed after stomach bug infects ‘significant number’ of pupils

The school in Bridgend had to temporarily shut doors after several of its pupils fell ill with a sickness bug. On Friday morning parents of children at Brynmenyn Primary were informed that classes would be cancelled so that the school could undergo a thorough cleaning. A spokesman from Bridgend county borough council said: “As a […]

How the CIA infects air-gapped networks

Enlarge / A configuration screen found in the Drifting Deadline exploit. (credit: WikiLeaks) Documents published Thursday purport to show how the Central Intelligence Agency has used USB drives to infiltrate computers so sensitive they are severed from the Internet to prevent them from being infected. More than 150 pages of materials published by WikiLeaks describe […]

Vigilante botnet infects IoT devices before blackhats can hijack them

Enlarge (credit: Seth Anderson) Mirai, the botnet that threatened the Internet as we knew it last year with record-setting denial-of-service attacks, is facing an existential threat of its own: A competing botnet known as Hajime has infected at least 10,000 home routers, network-connected cameras, and other so-called Internet of Things devices. Hajime uses a decentralized […]

A new mood of optimism infects investors in China’s banks

GUO SHUQING, China’s new banking regulator, knows the enormity of his task. China’s banking system, he observed last month, is worth more than $ 33trn. So it is bigger than any other country’s, and even than Europe’s as a whole. And he is well aware of the pitfalls left by a decade of breakneck lending […]