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Popular Mechanics June 2007 Joel Johnson	Hack Attack: Is the Whole Internet at Risk? Some hackers recently tried to take down the entire World Wide Web. You didn't even notice because the Internet is so robust.
PC World October 22, 2002 Berger & Weil	Internet Backbone Withstands Attack Monday's denial of service attack called major, but few noticed thanks to Net's redundancies.
InternetNews June 16, 2004 Sean Michael Kerner	Akamai Outage Raises DNS Questions DNS expert says Akamai's outage that hit some big sites briefly is not a global DNS prolem, but raises questions.
InternetNews January 22, 2010	Has DNSSEC Been Compromised Again? Yet another flaw is found in technology aimed at fixing DNS's own flaws. Should we be worried?
InternetNews February 25, 2009 Richard Adhikari	Online Trust Takes a Hit in Gmail Chat Phishing Security experts are warning that a phishing attack on Google's Gmail's chat feature not only poses a danger to users, but could be a harbinger of things to come.
InternetNews March 7, 2005 Sean Michael Kerner	DNS-Based Phishing Attacks on The Rise Phishers are using a pair of DNS exploits to help give them the illusion of credible domains.
InternetNews February 8, 2007 Ed Sutherland	VeriSign Plans $100M DNS Upgrade VeriSign to expand Internet infrastructure to handle 'radical change' in online attacks and usage.
PC World October 23, 2002 Paul Roberts	Net Attack Could Be First of Many, Experts Warn Future attacks could succeed in bringing down the Internet and are surprisingly simple to launch, security insiders say.
InternetNews May 9, 2005 Tim Gray	Google Back After Going Black Internet search giant Google's engine sputtered briefly over the weekend when its Web site blacked-out, leaving millions of visitors looking for answers elsewhere.
InternetNews February 23, 2009 Richard Adhikari	Malware Authors Exploit Facebook App Is a bogus application making the rounds on Facebook just a failed marketing ploy? Or something more dangerous?
InternetNews February 10, 2010	DNS Servers Provide Service, Security Benefits OpenDNS and Google Public DNS do a great job of blocking known exploit domains to help keep company networks safe from increasingly sophisticated and resourceful hackers.
InternetNews June 3, 2009 Alex Goldman	Scareware Arrives on Twitter in Latest Attack As new Web 2.0 threats proliferate, business IT departments struggle with basic tasks such as patch management.
InternetNews August 7, 2009	Facebook, Twitter Attacks Aimed for One User An anti-Russian blogger with profiles on a number of sites may have been the intended target of yesterday's attack.
InternetNews July 8, 2009 Alex Goldman	U.S., South Korea Under Cyber Attack Governments and security firms are working together to fight an attack which, though massive, contains very primitive components.
InternetNews May 22, 2006 Ed Sutherland	Word Attack Hails From China Security researchers warn Microsoft Word zero-day exploit is aimed at government e-mail systems.
InternetNews September 26, 2008 Sean Michael Kerner	.ORG the Most Secure Domain? With a new effort for DNSSEC underway, security is front and center at the Public Interest Registry.
InternetNews December 5, 2008 Sean Michael Kerner	Coalition to Secure DNS Takes Shape New group aims to get over the hurdles to a secure DNS. Will it succeed?
InternetNews September 10, 2004 Michael Singer	Paul Mockapetris, Chairman, Nominum The Domain Name System inventor discusses the future of distributed systems, VoIP and his theory of 'market-tecture.'
InternetNews August 16, 2005 David Needle	Windows Worm Spreads Separate groups of hackers are releasing a barrage of worms related to the Zotob.B virus in a battle to seize control of innocent users' computers. CNN, ABC and the NY Times, are among those hit.
InternetNews February 25, 2010	Intel Confirms Details of Cyber Attack In regulatory filing, Intel outlines "sometimes successful" attacks that infiltrated the company's systems around the same time as the massive attack on Google and other companies.
InternetNews July 9, 2010	Hackers Raid University of Maine's Servers The social security numbers and other personal data of over 4,500 students were compromised in the attack.
InternetNews October 25, 2006 Roy Mark	Floridian Charged in Akamai Attack A 32-year-old Floridian faces charges in Massachusetts for his alleged role in launching a distributed denial of service attack on Akamai Technologies.
InternetNews July 19, 2010	The Internet's DNS Gets Key Security Feature With the addition of DNSSEC, the Net's core infrastructure gains an important new security feature.
The Motley Fool June 13, 2011 Arunava De	Are Hackers the Next Threat to Your Portfolio? Before you respond to a malicious attack on one of your investments in your portfolios, measure the impact that such an attack can have on the company.
InternetNews February 16, 2007 Ed Sutherland	Symantec Sounds Warning on Router Passwords Symantec warns on a vulnerability in some home broadband routers.
InternetNews September 15, 2008 Richard Adhikari	Hackers Hit BusinessWeek With Malware The BusinessWeek.com site was hit by a SQL injection attack and connects users to a sleeper site.
InternetNews June 11, 2009 Alex Goldman	Malware Keeps Creeping Onto Mac OS X The Apple Mac is still seeing far fewer attacks than Windows experiences, but researchers say there's a disturbing trend at work.
InternetNews November 20, 2007 Sean Michael Kerner	The Trouble With BIND DNS Servers New research shows that the open source BIND server still dominates, as do security issues.
Fast Company Michael Grothaus	For First Time, Cyber Attack Causes Widespread Electricity Blackout The first known cyber attack to cause widespread public blackouts has occurred in Ukraine, it is believed.
InternetNews March 10, 2009 Sean Michael Kerner	Microsoft Patch Tuesday Shores Up DNS DNS flaws are rated by Microsoft as likely to be exploited.
InternetNews August 6, 2009	Twitter, Facebook Hit in Denial-of-Service Attacks Social media phenoms Twitter and Facebook this morning suffered bouts of downtime - with each blaming a denial-of-service (DDoS) attack for its woes.
InternetNews February 12, 2008 Sean Michael Kerner	VeriSign Strengthens DNS For IPv6 DNS gets scaled for the challenge ahead, as the Internet infrastructure giant works to similarly ready its other systems.
InternetNews August 20, 2009	Facebook Hit by Cross-Site Request Forgery Attack As Facebook's popularity continues to rise, it is becoming an increasingly attractive target for security researchers and vulnerability disclosures.
CIO February 1, 2003 Scott Berinato	Threats Won't Make the Sky Fall CIOs and other IT executives would be wise to remain focused on what a specific threat means to their organization so that they can address any vulnerabilities that may exist. You don't need to hear the words of a terror threat to sustain such a focus.
InternetNews September 17, 2007 Andy Patrizio	Have We Reached The End Of The Virus? Not quite. The old-fashioned virus infestation is fading as the biggest nuisance for computer users in favor of Trojans, Symantec's new malware study finds.
InternetNews April 5, 2007 David Needle	Domain Name Fee Increase Set VeriSign announces increases to .com and .net domains to help pay infrastructure costs.
InternetNews March 15, 2010	ICANN, .Org Pressing Ahead With DNSSEC Against the backdrop of a major security flaw in the Internet's routing system, registrars, service providers and others are moving to implement the DNSSEC solution.
InternetNews May 12, 2010	Firm Finds Flaws in Popular Antivirus Software Putting the security software offerings from 35 different vendors through their paces, researchers at Matousec conclude that all are susceptible to an exploit that could hobble Windows-based devices.
InternetNews November 25, 2009	ICANN Decries DNS Redirect Practices The Internet authority says current DNS redirect practices compromises Web security, efficiency.
PC World January 24, 2001 Cameron Crouch	Are Hackers Hounding Microsoft? Software giant's sites fall in domain name snafu, but cause of crash remains undetermined...
PC Magazine August 7, 2009 Lance Ulanoff	Twitter's Down and It's All Your Fault The micro-blogging service's difficulties are troubling. Why it's suffering through a DDoS attack is even more upsetting.
Linux Journal May 2001 Neil Anuskiewicz	An Introduction to DNS and DNS Tools The explosive growth of the Internet was made possible, in part, by DNS...
InternetNews June 6, 2007 Andy Patrizio	Microsoft IIS a Popular Target For Malware According to a report by Google, malware is as prevalent on Microsoft's Internet Information Servers as the far more popular Apache Web server.
InternetNews May 28, 2009 Alex Goldman	Flood of Fake Western Union E-mails Hide Trojan An influx of malware-laden spam, which started two weeks ago, continues today as hackers seek credit card and banking information.
Wired August 23, 2007 John Robb	When Bots Attack If you want to bring down a country's information infrastructure and you don't want anyone to know who did it, the weapon of choice is a distributed denial of service attack.
InternetNews March 27, 2006 David Miller	ICANN Tackles Future of Internet The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers' 25th International meeting officially opened on Monday in Wellington, New Zealand.
Salon.com January 26, 2001 Scott Rosenberg	Down and out in Redmond When Microsoft fell off the grid, its first reaction was to cover its butt...
InternetNews September 2, 2009	Malware Capitalizes on California Wildfires Macs and PCs are under attack as concerned netizens search for information about the fires.
InternetNews February 19, 2009 Sean Michael Kerner	Kaminsky: DNS Is Still in Danger At Black Hat, the security researcher warns that the threat to the Internet is real - but there's a solution.
RootPrompt.org April 3, 2000 Fernando Schapachnik	Defeating DDOS II A proposal for defeating Distributed Denial of Service Attacks based on changing network routes...