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
Infosec folk spot web of compromised British devices Hundreds of Mirai-infected home routers across the UK are currently acting as DDoS bots.…
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Mirai variant turns TalkTalk routers into zombie botnet agents
DDoS attacks on the horizon as White House cybersecurity report issues recommendations CloudFlare has warned of another massive botnet that appears to be ramping up and targeting the US West Coast.…
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CloudFlare warns of another massive botnet, er, flaring up
Now ZyXEL and D-Link routers from Post Office and TalkTalk under siege Analysis The Mirai botnet has struck again, with hundreds of thousands of TalkTalk and Post Office broadband customers affected. The two ISPs join a growing casualty list from a wave of assaults that have also affected customers at Deutsche Telekom, KCOM and Irish telco Eir over the last two weeks or so.…
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Sh… IoT just got real: Mirai botnet attacks targeting multiple ISPs
Google engineers offer guidance to keep application developers from shooting themselves in the foot. In the wake of the last month’s distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against Dyn, a DNS management service, Google engineers want to remind application developers that self-harm represents a more realistic risk.…
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How to avoid DDoSing yourself
It’s just a ‘temporary inconvenience’, says agency The public-facing website for the UK’s National Crime Agency has wobbled today under a Distributed Denial of Service Attack.…
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UK’s ‘FBI’ hit by DDoS barrage
Hint: next time, buy a firewall before you’re attacked Residents in two apartment buildings in the Finnish town of Lappeenranta had a chill-out lasting more than a week after a DDoS attack battered unprotected building management systems.…
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Finns chilling as DDoS knocks out building control system
Revamped version speeds junk mail attacks A revamped version of the Torte botnet malware is turning insecure CMS servers into spam-spewing zombies.…
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SpamTorte botnet gets turbo-charged
Process pig keeps eyes glued on fraudsters’ phone number. Tech support fraudsters have taught an old denial of service bug new tricks to add a convincing layer of authenticity to scams.…
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Tech support scammers use denial of service bug to hang victims
Entire country gets to enjoy life without the web thanks to huge DDoS attack The West African country of Liberia was knocked offline this week.…
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Mirai IoT botnet blamed for smashing Liberia off the internet