2016 sucked. 2017 won’t be much better, sorry DDoS attacks have been around since at least 2000, and they’re not going away. In fact, as the number of devices online grows, the volume and velocity of these attacks is also increasing.…
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DDoS in 2017: Strap yourself in for a bumpy ride
Console hacker DDoS bot runs on lame home routers Console DDoSers Lizard Squad are using insecure home routers for a paid service that floods target networks, researchers say.…
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Router creds admin/admin? Lizard Squad thanks you
25-hour incident blocked traffic from reaching rackspace.com and some subdomains Rackspace says it has recovered from a nasty distributed denial of service attack that it says may have seen “a portion of legitimate traffic to our DNS infrastructure … inadvertently blocked.”…
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Rackspace restored after DDOS takes out DNS
Stupid Redmond kicked over our honeypots, wail white hats Security researchers are complaining about collateral damage from the latest botnet take-down efforts by Microsoft and its partners.…
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Microsoft borks botnet takedown in Citadel snafu