Police in the Chinese capital have detained a 39-year-old man they said extorted cash from companies after launching distributed denial-of-service attacks on their Websites.

The topic of the false positive has always been an issue for the security profession and the topic has been in the news again recently; last week, following the announcement of Michael Jackson’s death, Google News found its website so inundated with page requests that its security systems and analysts mistook the legitimate traffic for a denial of service attack.

The attacks, which started last weekend, shut down the Federal Trade Commission and Department of Transportation websites.

The denial-of-service attacks that briefly shut down some U.S. and South Korean government websites are not likely being carried out by a professional.

F-Secure expert to demonstrate the gravity of the Conficker threat at Black Hat.

Users visiting the Twitter and Facebook social networking sites may notice a slowdown in service, or may not be able to gain access at all. Is malware involved in this attack?

e-Cop and StarHub have formed a strategic collaboration to provide an integrated managed service for StarHub’s Internet Clean Pipe solution.

A flood of malicious traffic directed at UltraDNS caused sluggishness and outages last week for shoppers at Amazon, Wal-Mart and Gap.

A recent survey by Arbor Networks find that over a third of security professionals consider the possibility of a large scale and sophisticated botnet attack as a major threat to security for 2010.

Botnets are a key player in DDoS attacks. Right now, we know that the most prominent spam-sending botnets control over five million active PCs.