2013
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12 year old Quebec boy Anonymous Hacker Pleads Guilty to DDOS Attack on Government Websites
A 12-year-old Quebec boy is responsible for hacking several government and police websites during the student uprising in spring 2012, creating computer havoc and causing $60,000 damage, court…
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NSA site down due to alleged DDoS attack
The website for the United States National Security Agency suddenly went offline Friday. NSA.gov has been unavailable globally as of late Friday afternoon, and Twitter accounts belonging to…
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A DDoS Attack Could Cost $1 Million Before Mitigation Even Starts
A new report suggests that companies are unaware of the extent of the DDoS threat, unaware of the potential cost of an attack, and over-reliant on traditional and…
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Norks seed online games with malware in fiendish DDoS plot
Seoul police believe country’s love of gaming will be turned upon itself South Korea’s National Police Agency (NPA) is warning users not to download unofficial online games as…
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IBM unveils new cloud solution
IBM announced a new cloud solution that combines software analytics and cloud security services to fend off web-based DDoS attacks for organizations doing business on the web and…
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Attackers use smaller botnets to launch high-bandwidth attacks
DDoS perpetrators changed tactics in Q3 2013 to boost attack sizes and hide their identities, according to Prolexic. “This quarter, the major concern is that reflection attacks are…
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Data visualization of global DDoS attacks
Arbor Networks have collaborated with Google Ideas to create a data visualization that maps global DDoS attacks. Google Ideas – a ‘think/do’ tank – explores how technology can…
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If there’s somethin’ strange in your network ‘hood. Who y’gonna call? Google’s DDoS-busters
Project Shield guards activists, charities from web storms Google will shelter charities and activists from distributed denial-of-service attacks by wrapping their websites in its protection technologies.…
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Google Project Shield protects “free expression” sites hit by DDoS
Before you ask: this Google’s Project Shield has nothing to do with NVIDIA SHIELD, the two being completely different elements – the Google iteration is all about protecting…
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DDoS Attacks Grow Shorter But Pack More Punch
If there was ever a riddle asking the listener to name something that has become bigger and shorter at the same time, distributed denial-of-service attacks (DDoS) would be…