2013
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London schoolboy secretly arrested over ‘world’s biggest cyber attack’
A London schoolboy has been secretly arrested over the “world’s biggest cyber attack” as part of an international swoop against a suspected organised crime gang. The 16-year-old was…
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Amateur hacker behind DDoS attack on China?
When, in late August, China's Domain Name Service was targeted by a huge DDoS attack which ultimately lead to many websites being completely inaccessible for a period of…
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Lessons Learned From the Banking Industry DDoS Attacks: Good Advice Worth Heeding
Now that the banking industry has gone through four rounds of very public DDoS attacks, experts are looking at what happened to extract some “lessons learned” to turn…
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What’s Next for DDoS Attacks?
Sept. 18 marks the one-year anniversary of Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Cyber Fighters’ first announcement about distributed-denial-of-service attacks to be waged against the U.S. financial services industry This self-proclaimed…
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Telstra to DNS-block botnet C&Cs with unknown blacklist
What could possibly go wrong other than a C&C net sharing your colo barn’s IP address? Telstra is preparing to get proactive with malware, announcing that it will…
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DDoS: The Need for Updated Defenses Lessons Learned from a Year of Attacks Against Banks
In the wake of a year of attacks waged against banking institutions by Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Cyber Fighters, the FS-ISAC’s Bill Nelson and the ABA’s Doug Johnson say…
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Threat of the Week: Sept. 11 Quiet But DDoS On The Rise (Again)
September 11 came, it went and despite the FBI warning to credit unions to be ready for a bump in hostile activities on that anniversary date, multiple experts…
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Countering Attacks Hiding In Denial-Of-Service Smokescreens
Denial-of-service attacks have long been considered the blunt wooden club of online hazards, a multi-gigabit stream of shock and awe. Yet, increasingly the noisy attacks are being used…
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Federal DDoS Warnings Are Outdated
It’s always the same: Government cybersecurity experts learn of pending distributed denial of service attacks, especially around the anniversary of Sept. 11, and issue warning after warning after…
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Multiplayer games and DoS attacks
Prolexic, detailed the rampant problem of denial of service attacks within and from online gaming communities. The DDoS attacks, which can pack a powerful punch by the use…