2012
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Accused British hacker launch DDoS attack and charged in U.S. over LulzSec attacks
A federal grand jury in Los Angeles has indicted a 20-year-old British citizen on charges related to attacks by the LulzSec hacking group on the Fox and PBS…
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“Armenpress” prevented Distributed Denial of Service ‘DDoS’ hacker attack
DDos (Distributed Denial of Service) attack took place in order to thwart the works of “Armenpress” Armenian news agency website, which was prevented by IT specialists of the…
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Azerbaijani and Turkish hackers hit Armenian websites with Denial of Service ‘DDoS’ attacks
Last night Azerbaijani hackers attacked BlogNews.am, Armenpress.am websites, and Turkish hackers attacked Beeline.am website. Information security specialist Samvel Martirosyan informed about this. Armenpress.am and Beeline.am websites aren’t functioning…
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Mascow protest against President Vladimir Putin led to indeptendent Russian websites hit with distributed denial-of-service ‘DDoS’ attack
More than 100,000 protesters on Tuesday joined a march against President Vladimir Putin in central Moscow, organizer and radical left-wing activist Sergei Udaltsov told AFP news agency. “There…
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Wawa’s website under suddle DDoS attack
Hackers caused problems for Wawa’s website, www.wawa.com, late Friday, although it appeared to be back to normal by Saturday. Some visitors to the convenience retailer’s site did not…
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Security fears for ACT’s govt files
The ACT government’s computer systems fought off more than a million attempts to compromise their security in the nine months to April, the territory’s auditor-general has found. And…
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North Korea ships malware-infected games to South Korean users, uses them to launch DDoS attacks
According to an independent report published in Korea’s JoongAng Daily, Seoul’s Metropolitan Police Agency has intercepted a cyber attack plot orchestrated by North Korea’s Reconnaissance General Bureau, which…
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Anonymous’ open letter to Indian govt claims DDoS attack on sites are legal
Last night hacktivist group Anonymous sent out an open letter to the government of India criticizing the government and ISP companies for blocking torrent and video sharing websites.…
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Indian ISPs targeted in Anonymous censorship protest
The websites of Indian government-run communications company Mahanagar Telephone Nigam and the Internet Service Providers Association of India faced DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks from Anonymous on…
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Counting the cost of a DDoS attack
In the past month, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the Leveson inquiry website, Visa and Virgin Media have all been hit by distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.…