But numbers aren’t everything, are they, Dyn? The Reaper IoT botnet is nowhere near as threatening as previously suggested, according to new research.…
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Reaper IoT botnet ain’t so scary, contains fewer than 20,000 drones
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DreamHost smashed in DDoS attack: Who’s to blame? Take a guess…
Is it the alt-right or anti-fascists? Most likely the latter Web hosting biz DreamHost has been largely crippled today by a distributed denial of service attack, bringing down most of its services.…
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FCC: We could tell you our cybersecurity plan… but we’d have to kill you
Despite Pai on face, US federal regulator keeps digging DDoS BS hole America’s broadband watchdog, the FCC, has continued digging an ever-deeper hole over its claims it was subject to a distributed denial-of-service attack.…
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‘Application DDOS’ that target expensive APIs worry Netflix
Attackers can look legit while hitting APIs that make the most work for an app Netflix has identified denial of service threat to microservices architectures that it’s labelled “application DDOS”.…
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‘Application DDOS’ that target expensive APIs worry Netflix
New GamaPoS malware targets US companies
After dedicating their efforts to swelling the number of computers roped into their malicious net, the masters of the Andromeda botnet are putting it to use by delivering a new family of PoS malware t…
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Rise in DDoS reflection attacks using abandoned routing protocol
There's been an increase in the use of outdated Routing Information Protocol version one (RIPv1) for reflection and amplification attacks, according to Akamai. RIPv1 is a fast, easy way to dynamica…
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Polish plane IT attack? Apparently not, just a simple DDoS
Turns out, it wasn’t that big of a deal after all The Register has discovered that the unspecified IT attack which left 1,400 passengers of LOT Polish Airlines stranded in Warsaw was a simple DDoS issue, which had so impeded the airline’s connection that it could not produce its flight plans in time for take offs.…
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$7500 DDoS extortion hitting Aussie, Kiwi enterprises
Pay up or we’ll send up to 400Gbps your way New Zealand Internet Task Force (NZITF) chair Barry Brailey is warning Australian and New Zealand enterprises to be on the look out for distributed denial of service extortion attacks demanding payment of up to AU$7500.…
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How Google saw the DDoS attack against Github and GreatFire
The recent DDoS attacks aimed at GreatFire, a website that exposes China's internet censorship efforts and helps users get access to their mirror-sites, and GitHub, the world's largest code hosting se…
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DDoS threat recognized by all members of the C-suite
The increasing number and size of DDoS attacks and their costly and devastating effects on brand perception have not passed unnoticed by North American businesses, most of which have heightened their …
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