2013
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Reddit Is Targeted with a DDoS Attack
The challenge with DDoS attacks like the one that hit Reddit is separating malicious traffic from legitimate, said security analyst Alex Horan. “If you wait until the traffic…
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DDoS Attack Bandwidth Jumps 718%
Distributed denial-of-service study finds increase in attack quantity and severity, while most attacks continue to originate from China. The average bandwidth seen in distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks has…
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Average DDoS attack bandwidth up 718 percent
The average DDoS attack bandwidth in Q1 2013 totaled 48.25 Gbps, which is a 718 percent increase over last quarter, and the average packet-per-second rate reached 32.4 million,…
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WordPress attacked by giant botnet
The Wordpress blogging platform, which hosts more than 64 million websites, has been attacked by a huge botnet
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TDoS: The latest wave of Denial of Service attacks
Hackers have been able to weasel their way into computer networks from nearly every direction. From malware to ransomware, and everything in between, cyber crooks are always looking…
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WordPress Websites Target of Hacker Attack
Many websites built on the blogging and content management system WordPress are currently under attack by a group of hackers attempting to gain access to the sites to…
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Amex Website Victim of DDoS Attack
Cyber attacks have become an alarming problem in recent months. Threats from China have been the main concern in America, but now a new type of hacker has…
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ZeroAccess Bitcoin botnet shows no signs of slowing
FortiGuard Labs observed that the Bitcoin mining botnet, ZeroAccess, was the number one threat last quarter. Their report also reveals new analysis of the South Korea cyberattacks and…
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Top Banks Offer New DDoS Attack Details
Increasingly, U.S. banking institutions are reluctant to acknowledge – much less discuss – the ongoing distributed-denial-of-service attacks against their online services. Perhaps that’s because they’re concerned that consumers…
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Cutwail botnet now spreads Android malware
Successful malware peddlers are always thinking up new ways of delivering malware to unsuspecting users. In the past Android malware was mostly served on third-party online marketplaces, but…