2013
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Anonymous launches massive cyber assault on Israel
Hacktivist group Anonymous has launched a second massive cyber attack against Israel, dubbed #OpIsrael. The collective threatens to “disrupt and erase Israel from cyberspace” in protest over its…
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Bitcoin exchange: Greedy traders to blame for DDoS attack
Bears bearing botnets? The soaring value of crypto-currency Bitcoin stuttered slightly last night – after a main exchange for the currency was flooded with network traffic and Bitcoin…
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Mt. Gox under largest DDoS attack as bitcoin price surges
The largest bitcoin exchange said Thursday it is fighting an intense distributed denial-of-service attack it believes is intended at manipulating the price of virtual currency, which has seen…
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Lessons Learned in Historic DDoS Attack on Spamhaus
The DNS amplification vulnerability, which was exploited to the fullest in the attacks on Spamhaus, return incoming requests to a DNS server with as much as 100 times…
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How you may have inadvertently participated in recent DDoS attacks
The botnets driving the recent distributed denial of service attacks are powered by millions of infected computers. Their coordinated flood of requests overwhelms the Internet’s DNS servers, slowing…
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Hackers attacking US banks are well-funded, expert says
The Cyber fighters of Izz Ad-Din Al Qassam hacker group – also known as Qassam Cyber Fighters – are at it again. For the third time in the…
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DoS attacks expose enterprise infrastructure vulnerabilities
Lurking in the shadows for nearly a decade, DoS and DDoS attacks are making a resurgence. Several high-profile assaults on the world's leading financial firms and other industries…
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Airlock launches secure cloud hosting
Airlock launched its Secure Cloud Platform which offers enterprise-level security features like intrusion detection, hardware and web application firewalls, DDoS mitigation and malware scanning. Airlo…
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Call centers under attack in targeted cyber-blackmail scheme
Crooks blasting public-safety phone lines with calls The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has cautioned public-safety call centers against the rise of so-called telephony denial of service…
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iMessage DDoS attacks foreshadow a bigger threat
Over the last couple of days, a group of iOS developers has been targeted with a series of rapid-fire texts sent over Apple’s iMessage system. The messages, likely transmitted…