2013
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What e-commerce companies think about DDoS protection
Prolexic announced the results of a survey of global e-commerce companies who were asked about DDoS protection and the effectiveness of different types of DDoS mitigation services. A…
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AFP and RBA websites hit by DDoS attacks
The websites for the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and the Reserve Bank of Australia were hit overnight by distributed denial of service attacks claimed to be brought about…
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Bitstamp Suffers Banking Software Issue and DDoS Attack
Bitstamp’s website has been experiencing a number of difficulties over the past couple of days. Yesterday, the Slovenia-based company experienced problems with the banking software it uses. A…
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Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) Targeted for DDoS attack
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty has been targeted in an Internet attack known as a distributed denial of service (DDoS). The attack has disrupted RFE/RL’s global multimedia news and…
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New Zealand Couriers struck down by DDoS attack
The New Zealand Couriers website was the victim of a ‘denial of service’ botnet attack late last week, believed to be from overseas. The ‘denial of service’ attack,…
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Tracking botnets using automatically generated domains
Stefano Zanero is an Assistant Professor at Politechnico di Milano, where he focuses on systems security. Modern botnets rely on domain-generation algorithms (DGAs) to build resilient command-and-c…
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Pro Afrikaans Action Group (Praag) under DDoS attack
Afrikaans language activist group Praag intends to lay criminal charges against people responsible for attacking its website, the group said on Thursday. Pro Afrikaans Action Group (Praag) founder…
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3-Cyber attack “war game” tests London banks
* Exercise involved “fake foreign government attack”-source * Also involved “denial of service attack” – source * Event dubbed “Waking Shark II” * Bank of England has told…
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Yet ANOTHER IE 0-day hole found: Malware-flingers already using it for drive-by badness
You read that right: OPT OUT of a botnet by hitting Ctrl+Alt+Del Security researchers have discovered new zero-day vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer that are already being harnessed by…
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Decoding the cyber attacks – DDoS against Singapore Government
Hacktivism arrived in Singapore 10 days ago in the form of “the Messiah”, who claimed to be a member of global cyber activism group Anonymous. He threatened to…