Claranet, one of Europe’s largest Managed Services Provider (MSP) has announced a partnership with Prolexic Technologies to provide its clients with the highest level of protection against Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks.
Gaming and payment solution providers have typically been prime targets for web attacks.
Claranet is adding to its existing DDoS mitigation with Prolexic’s Clean […]
Archive for October, 2006
Perhaps it’s because people involved in the Internet gambling sector tend to be well briefed on the Distributed Denial of Services brand of cyber extortion, but a CBC report this week on a talk on the subject really contained nothing new or exciting.
Addressing the Nova Scotia Responsible Gambling Conference in Halifax, university criminologist researcher John […]
Florida man charged in botnet attack on Akamai
Published October 30th, 2006 in DDoS Criminals. 0 Comments
A federal court in Boston on Tuesday heard charges that 32-year-old John Bombard of Seminole used a variant of the Gaobot e-mail worm to turn computers–including systems at two universities whose names have not been disclosed–into an arsenal of "zombies" or "bots" that he could control remotely.
He then used this network of hijacked computers, known […]
The attack, which was first detected at 6am, saw the blocking of access
to the NAB’s site and slow log-ons for the bank’s internet banking
customers occured intermittently throughout the day, NAB spokesperson
Megan Lane said.
Thus
far, the NAB was not aware of the source or motivation of the attack,
Lane said, but the event had been referred to the […]
As the use of the internet, online banking and transfer of valuable
information becomes ever more pervasive, so increasing numbers of
individuals and businesses are becoming victims of electronic crime.
E-crime, as it is more popularly known, comes in a variety of guises,
from identity theft and fraudulent financial activities through to
hacking into IT systems and launching denial-of-service attacks […]
Islamic hackers hit Vatican site– unsuccessfully
Published October 13th, 2006 in DDoS News. 0 Comments
Islamic
computer hackers tried to disrupt the Vatican web site earlier this
week, but failed, according to a report in the ANSA news service.
In
an online forum for militant Muslims, a group announced plans for an
assault on the Vatican computer network, which was said to be a form of
retribution for Pope Benedict’s criticism of Islam in his […]
IntruGuard Devices Announces Managed Security Services Partnership Program
Published October 10th, 2006 in DDoS Vendors. 0 CommentsIntruGuard Devices, Inc., a leading provider of distributed denial of service (DDoS) firewall security appliances, recently announced the debut of a managed security services partnership (MSSP) program. IntruGuard’s appliances, dedicated to automatically blocking denial of service attacks in seconds, are now available for integration and delivery in a managed security services solution. The program […]
Airline foils hackers with latest high-tech defences
Published October 9th, 2006 in DDoS News. 0 Comments
A private airline which faced financial ruin after a hacking gang
brought its computers to a halt during three months of sustained
attacks, claims to have turned the tables on the hackers by installing
the latest high-tech defences.
The airline, which runs shuttle services between Italy and Albania,
narrowly survived after the gang bombarded the company’s systems with
millions of […]
Russian cyber-blackmailers sent to the Gulag
Published October 9th, 2006 in DDoS Criminals. 0 Comments
Authorities in Russia have gaoled a gang of cyber-criminals who blackmailed online companies through distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.
The gang is said to have extorted more than $5000 from British online casinos and betting shops after threatening to attack their websites and render them inaccessible to the outside world.
Ivan Maksakov, Alexander Petrov and Denis Stepanov were […]
Philippine Data Center Launch Anti-DDOS Security
Published October 9th, 2006 in DDoS News. 0 Comments
Internet data center services provider IP-Converge Data Center, Inc. has signed a deal with security firm Prolexic to build Asia’s first large-scale anti-DDOS (distributed denial of service) platform to prevent IP-Converge customers from experiencing DDOS attacks.
According to a reports, DDOS attacks is the most common and worst type of network security problems global network infrastructures.
IP-Converge […]
