A New Mexico man is facing federal hacking charges for allegedly using the now defunct attack-for-hire service vDOS to launch damaging digital assaults aimed at knocking his former employer’s Web site ...

Two young Israeli men alleged by this author to have co-founded vDOS — until recently the largest and most profitable cyber attack-for-hire service online — were arrested and formally indicted this ...

vDOS – a “booter” service that has earned in excess of $600,000 over the past two years helping customers coordinate more than 150,000 so-called distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks designed ...

vDos is a DOS emulator designed to run old DOS programs on modern Windows operating systems, particularly useful for 64-bit versions where the built-in NTVDM (NT Virtual DOS Machine) is not available.

A pair of Israeli teens have been arrested for allegedly operating a notorious hacking tool designed to flood victims' websites with malicious traffic, overwhelming and crashing them. Writing on his ...

Israeli news site Haaretz reports that the Israeli national police arrested two teenagers following a tip from the FBI. The two men, Huri and Yarden Bidani, (it has not been clarified if they are ...

Israeli authorities have officially charged two 19-year-old teenagers for running vDos, a DDoS-for-hire service, the largest such platform at the time it went down in the autumn of last year. The ...

A Manchester judge spared a UK teen who was behind a large number of DDoS attacks of any prison time, sentencing the youth to 16 months detention, suspended for two years. The teenager is Jack William ...