2006
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Richard Stiennon’s Top Ten Threats for 2007
Richard Stiennon has announced his top ten threats for 2007 on his blog at ZDNet. His top ten threats are as follows. 100% Growth in revenue for cyber…
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Interview with Derek Raines from Gigenet
The Host Guru are running an interview with Derek Raines of Gigenet which is well known for the DDoS attack filtering they offer their customers. Derek talks about…
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DDoS Attacks – Possible Solutions
One of the biggest ongoing challenges in networking continues to be the struggle against distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. Unlike the similarly-named denial of service (DoS) attack,…
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Cafepress.com Gets Hit By DDoS Attack!
CafePress.com, which provides online stores for thousands of blogs and web sites, has been hit with a distributed denial of service attack (DDoS) which has disrupted service for…
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EveryDNS Suffers DDoS Attack
"EveryDNS, sister company to OpenDNS (which runs the PhishTank anti-phishing initiative), has been hit by a massive distributed denial-of-service attack. The attack started sometime Friday afternoon and, from…
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IntruGuard go to Europe
After reviewing their current signature based Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) and evaluating several other IPS solutions available on the market, Planeetta selected the IG200 to protect its customer…
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Amazon.com DDoS’ed by Customers Vote Winner
In case you were hoping to take advantage of the Amazon Customers Vote deal for a $100 Xbox 360 on Thanksgiving, Amazon.com was reportedly not reachable from least…
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Websites struggling for legal recourse for DoS attacks
Websites blocked by ISPs when under a distributed denial of service attack (DDoS) face millions of pounds in lost business because ISPs refuse to take responsibility for hosting…
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PROLEXIC PROTESTS INNOCENCE
Anti-DDoS firm not involved in criminal activity says spokesman One of the indicted companies in the major Giordano Internet sports betting bust, Prolexic Technologies was quick to protest…
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DDoS makes a phishing e-mail look real
Just as Internet users learn that clicking on a link in an e-mail purporting to come from their bank is a bad idea, phishers seem to be developing…