2012
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What Distributed Denial of Service ‘DDoS’ Attack Are and How to Survive Them
Never heard of a DDoS attack? Small companies that do business online ought to learn about this growing online threat — and figure out how they’ll respond should…
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Critical vulnerabilities in popular DDoS toolkit exposed
Prolexic Technologies exposed weaknesses in the command and control (C&C) architecture of the Dirt Jumper DDoS Toolkit family that could neutralize would-be attackers. The Dirt Jumper family of…
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Distributed Denial of Service ‘DDoS’ crooks: Do you want us to blitz those phone lines too TDoS?
Cybercrooks are now offering to launch cyberattacks against telecom services, with prices starting at just $20 a day. Distributed denial of attacks against websites or web services have…
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Wikileaks back up after attack
The whistle-blowing website Wikileaks is back online after being disrupted by a denial of service (DDoS) attack for more than a week.
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Indicted College Student Speaks Up About Her Case for involvement of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks
A college student arrested last year for alleged involvement in distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks waged by Anonymous appeared publicly here Saturday on a panel discussing the hacktivist collective…
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Tablet’s Server Outages due to Distributed Denial of Service ‘DDoS’ attack
For the last several months, Tablet Magazine’s servers have been coming under recurring distributed denial-of-service attacks, or DDoS attacks . Yesterday we suffered two major attacks, the first…
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Alleged Anon arrested for planning gov DDoS attacks
21-year-old could face five years in a Hong Kong slammer Hong Kong police have arrested a 21-year-old man after he apparently bragged on Facebook of his intent to…
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Family First site back online after Distributed Denial of Service ‘DDoS’ attack
Family First’s anti gay marriage website is back up and running after an “unprecedented attack” took out the website’s host servers. “Protect Marriage” was launched by Family First…
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Demonoid Faces Prolonged Downtime After Distributed Denial of Service ‘DDoS’ attack
A severe DDoS attack has brought down one of the most famous BitTorrent trackers. Demonoid has been inaccessible to its millions of users for more than a day…
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Super-Charged Distributed Denial of Service ‘DDoS’ attack Spike In 2012
This year has seen distributed denial of service (DDoS) attackers increase the power of DDsS attacks massively, according to figures exclusively shown to TechWeekEurope. DDoS attacks see servers…