Miscreants also hammer Euro websites as well, because why not? In an impeccable instance of horrible timing, the US government’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) says it fended off a cyberattack by online scumbags.…
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US Health and Human Services targeted by DDoS scum at just the time it’s needed to be up and running
Cloudflare no longer protects the Daily Stormer from distributed denial of service attacks.
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Daily Stormer: Cloudflare drops neo-Nazi site
Minecraft, the game adored by millions of children, is allegedly at the heart of the web’s biggest net attack.
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Minecraft link to net’s biggest botnet
Thirty four people, including teenagers, are arrested after an international police operation involving EU and US authorities.
China’s Ministry of Justice has threatened legal action against those blaming Chinese firms for botnets.
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Beijing threatens legal action over webcam claims
A distributed denial of service (or DDoS) attack is an attempt to take a website offline by overwhelming it with internet traffic.
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Ireland’s National Lottery website and ticket machines were thrown offline after a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on Wednesday.
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Irish lottery hit by DDoS attack
One suspect has been arrested and a second detained after a Europol-led raid on a gang suspected of carrying out cyber-attacks and demanding ransoms.
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DDoS extortion gang suspect arrested
NatWest Bank has blamed earlier problems with its website on a series of deliberate attacks, known as a distributed denial of service (DDoS)
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NatWest: Our website was ‘targeted’
Mismatched clocks allow poison packets to prevent synching, and sink you Red Hat security chap Miroslav Lichvar has revealed two vulnerabilities in the Network Time Protocol (NTP) that allow attackers to get clients to execute unauthenticated packets.…
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Denial of service attacks pour through rift in Network Time Protocol