Group used 30,000-node botnet in MasterCard, PayPal attacks

IDG News Service - PayPal's website was hit late Wednesday by two botnets as online activists continued their Web attacks on companies that have severed their relationships with WikiLeaks.

The activists have recruited volunteers, who have banded their computers into a distributed denial of service (DDoS) botnet, but they are also using hacked machines to carry out these attacks, said Sean-Paul Correll of threat researcher Panda Security. "Today we observed over 3,000 computers in the voluntary botnet, but we also have knowledge of a 30k node botnet," he said.

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Set-Top Box Shoot-Out

Apple TV and Google TV aren’t the only media receivers on the block. Here’s a look at the best ways to bring the Web to your HDTV.

Media streaming has come of age this year. A class of products that was born back in 2008 with a simple box by Roku that streamed Netflix video to your television has grown to include devices that bring the entire Web to your TV screen. You might even say that the concept of living room convergence we’ve been talking about for years has arrived.

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How To Develop A Mobile Application Without Breaking The Bank

Apple vs. Google. AT&T vs. Verizon. The competition for mobile dominance is not only hot, it is heating up further with every phone release. Why has this sector become such a consumer staple? Two words: mobile applications.

Based on the rapid advancement in mobile technology, applications and mobile tools offer everything that a consumer or business person could possibly dream of. Consumers didn’t pay $500-$600 for the first iPhone because it could dial a phone number, they did so because they could do amazing things with it. Now for the million dollar question: Why doesn’t your company have a mobile application?

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