Founded in 2008, Posterous is an ingenious Web publishing platform that can take just about any file, photo or video sent in an e-mail attachment and automatically post it to a customer’s website or blog. Unfortunately the startup experienced a few glitches last week. “On Wednesday and Friday, our servers were hit by massive Denial of Service (DoS) attacks,” wrote…

A group of scammers is trying to trick website owners into sending them money by threatening to launch crippling Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. According to security researchers from Symantec who intercepted the fake messages, the scammers are sending them to email addresses they gather from domain whois information. The rogue emails come with subjects of “Hosting – Important…