2013
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DDoS as dance: Anonymous hits the ballet
A new multimedia ballet, “HackPolitik,” fuses jarring, angular movements with electroacoustic music and video projection to interpret the activities of hacker collective Anonymous. Hacker collective Anonymous is going…
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Denial of Service (DDoS) Cyber attacks – are they using the same logic as terror threats?
Much has been discussed about the damage that the Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) attacks cause to corporates and governments alike. It is estimate that at least 50% of…
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Avoiding Website Outages During the Holiday Season
The holiday shopping season is practically upon us, and online retailers don’t want to endure any IT downtime between Thanksgiving and Christmas when many ring up a third…
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Jurassic DDoS?
Like something from the digital ice age, distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks have thawed and are roaming the cyber planet again, according to data from Google in collaboration with…
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Anonymous Philippines hack and DDoS Government sites
Critics of the Aquino administration responsible for hacking government websites will be dealt with accordingly, Malacañang warned yesterday. “There are existing laws against hacking and proper action will…
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Extra Life DDoS Attack: Children’s Charity Extra Life Website Hit By DDoS During Annual Gaming Marathon
Extra Life — a charity organization dedicated helping Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals through an annual gaming marathon — has been hit with a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS)…
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Application-layer DDoS attacks are becoming increasingly sophisticated
The number of DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attacks that target weak spots in Web applications in addition to network services has risen during the past year and attackers are…
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OpThrowback: Anonymous to Launch DDOS Attacks Against FBI, NSA.
Anonymous hackers, more precisely the ones who hacked a couple of Syrian government websites last week, have announced the start of a new campaign called Operation Throwback.…
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Visual investigations of botnet command and control behavior
One of the classic debates in computer science concerns whether artificial intelligence or virtual reality is the more worthwhile pursuit. The advocates of artificial intelligence argue that computers…
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NSA.gov goes down after ‘error during scheduled update’
Spook agency denies DDOS, blames sysadmins The USA’s National Security Agency (NSA), lately the source of near-endless controversy for spying on just about the entire internet, has itself…