There’s some interesting things going on at the Acs-law.co.uk website. It’s no longer resolving to an error page; instead a new welcome screen splashes some rather peculiar information. It’s also worth noting the co.uk domain managed ACS:Law’s emails - the co.org website was the main domain. The functioning web page directs the users attention to a mirror of ACS:Law’s name…

A man reportedly targeted by an online sex sting was convicted yesterday on a charge relating to launching denial-of-service attacks on sites that posted stories about the incident. Bruce Raisley, 49, of Kansas City, Mo., was convicted of launching a program that infected about 100,000 computers around the world and directing them to attack the Web sites of Rolling Stone…

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…