2012
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LulzSec Members Confess To Distributed Denial of Service ‘DDoS’ Attacks to SOCA, Sony and etc
Four alleged members of the LulzSec hacktivist group had their day in British court Monday. Two of the people charged–Ryan Cleary, 20, and Jake Leslie Davis, 19–appeared at…
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Legalization of Distributed Denial of Service ‘DDDoS’ attacks as a form of protest
Dutch opposition party D66 has proposed the legalization of DDoS attacks as a form of protest. Activists would have to warn of their action in advance, giving websites…
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Massive botnet shut down after botmaster's arrest
Following an investigation that lasted 10 months, Russian police authorities have managed to arrest the 22-year-old operator of one of the largest botnets known to date. According to…
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RBS & NatWest Web services knocked out; Oslo Bors hit by DDoS attack
Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and its NatWest and Ulster Bank subsidiaries have been hit by “technical issues” that have left customers unable to access online services. In…
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Twitter down: Sporadic outage leads to speculation of DDoS attack
The social networking service Twitter suffered sporadic outages Thursday, leading some to speculate about a hacker attack. Access came and went, with reports that users were being affected…
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Financial Gain is Main Motivation for Cyber Criminals
Announcing the findings of “The Impact of Cybercrime on Businesses” survey, carried out by Ponemon Institute, Check Point Software Technologies revealed that 65% of the organizations which experienced…
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Check Point releases new DDoS Protector appliances
Check Point introduced a new line of security appliances designed to fight DDoS attacks. The DDoS Protector appliances deliver multi-layered protection and up to 12 Gbps of throughput…
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Asia to see rise in cloud DDoS security biz
COMMUNICASIA, SINGAPORE–With the rise of cloud services adoption, businesses also have escalating security concerns over distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, and that presents an opportunity for carrier…
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Distributed Denial of Service ‘DDoS’ becoming more ‘sophisticated’, damaging
Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) have matured with hackers blending different attack techniques and becoming more damaging, observers note. They add that defenses need to evolve to complement infrastructure security…
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Breaking Down a DDoS Attack
Distributed Denial of Service attacks have one goal, to make their target unavailable to its users. And there are certainly a number of different ways these attacks can…