2013
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Old and new botnets behind spam resurgence
Even when they have other capabilities, botnets are primarily used to send out malicious messages, since that is the easiest – not to mention the least risky -…
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GitHub Hit With Another DDoS Attack, Second In Two Days, And “Major Service Outage”
Services on code-sharing site GitHub have been disrupted for over an hour in what started as a “major service outage” because of a “brief DDoS attack.” This is…
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Czech finance sector hit by Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attacks
The Czech financial sector was targeted in cyber attacks on Wednesday, with the national bank and stock exchange websites disrupted by dedicated denial of service (DDOS) attacks. The…
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Raspberry Pi Foundation gets hit by a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attack
Attacked by a million node botnet Raspberry Pi’s website went black after unknown hackers brought it down with a distributed denial of service attack (DDoS). The website has…
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Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Protection Hardware for the Data Centre… Or Not!
Earlier this month, Juniper Networks purchased Webscreen Systems from Accumuli a UK-based IT security specialist. With this acquisition, Juniper is furthering a strategy to try to deal with…
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Radware launches cloud-based DDoS attack mitigation system
At RSA Conference 2013 in San Francisco, Radware announced DefensePipe, an integrated and comprehensive solution to help mitigate volumetric DDoS attacks which threaten to saturate a customer's Intern…
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Helping ISPs defend customers against bot infections
At RSA Conference 2013 Kindsight announced the Kindsight Botnet Security service to help Internet service providers detect botnet activity in the network and protect subscribers against bot infections…
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Five tips to combat a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attack
Who’s next? That’s a question probably lingering on the minds of many American banking executives these days. After all, eight U.S. banks were hammered by distributed denial of…
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Predictions for Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attacks in 2013 will be application based
Twenty-five percent of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks that occur in 2013 will be application-based, according to Gartner, Inc. During such incidents, attackers send out targeted commands…
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Malicious URLs eclipsing botnets as malware distribution leader
McAfee Labs revealed that sophisticated attacks originally targeting the financial services industry are now increasingly directed at other critical sectors of the economy, while an emerging set of…