2006
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UK bans denial of service attacks
A law was passed yesterday that makes it an offence to launch a denial of service attack in the UK, punishable by up to ten years in prison.…
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Layered Technologies Partners with netZentry to Offer Hosting Customers Complete DDoS Protection
netZentry, a leading developer of advanced network security and Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack detection and mitigation solutions, is partnering with Layered Technologies (http://www.layeredtech.com), a premier provider…
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U.K. company brings anti-DDoS appliances to the U.S.
Webscreen Technology is relaunching its denial-of-service mitigation appliances in the United States after 18 months of concentrating its efforts abroad. …
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Webscreen Partners with Crossbeam
Webscreen Technology Ltd , the UK based network integrity solutions vendor has today announced a strategic technology partnership with Crossbeam Systems®, Inc ., the leader in unified threat…
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Up to One Million Zombies
Messagelabs are reporting that cyber criminals are assembling a million zombies into one of the largest bot-nets ever. This article speculates that the purpose will be to launch…
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Claranet offers DDoS Protection
Claranet, one of Europe’s largest Managed Services Provider (MSP) has announced a partnership with Prolexic Technologies to provide its clients with the highest level of protection against Distributed…
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Canadian academic talks on cyber extortion
Perhaps it’s because people involved in the Internet gambling sector tend to be well briefed on the Distributed Denial of Services brand of cyber extortion, but a CBC…
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Florida man charged in botnet attack on Akamai
A federal court in Boston on Tuesday heard charges that 32-year-old John Bombard of Seminole used a variant of the Gaobot e-mail worm to turn computers–including systems at…
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National Australian Bank hit by DDoS Attack
The attack, which was first detected at 6am, saw the blocking of access to the NAB’s site and slow log-ons for the bank’s internet banking customers occured intermittently…
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Wales takes lead in combating e-crime
As the use of the internet, online banking and transfer of valuable information becomes ever more pervasive, so increasing numbers of individuals and businesses are becoming victims of…