2013
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How mystery DDoSers tried to take down Bitcoin exchange with 100Gbps crapflood
El Reg talks to anti-DDos bods – who UNMASK the target… Exclusive Web security firm Incapsula helped a Chinese Bitcoin trader to weather a ferocious denial-of-service attack…
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The Internet of Things: Vulns, botnets and detection
Does the Internet of Things scare you? It probably should. This DerbyCon video discusses why embedded device security is laughably bad, handling vendor notification, and setting up a…
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DDoS attack size accelerating rapidly
Arbor Networks released data on global DDoS attack trends for the first three quarters of 2013. The data shows that DDoS continues to be a global threat, with…
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What Is a DDoS Attack?
What Is a DDoS Attack? Before we can understand just how groundbreaking this recent attack was, let’s first go over exactly what a denial of service attack is.…
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Lessons learned from sinkholing the ZeroAccess botnet
ZeroAccess (or Sirefef) is a piece of malware that is very adept at hiding its existence from users, and brings in huge sums of money to its masters…
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Video: DIY Command & Control for fun and no profit
Many security professionals have heard about Command & Control botnets, even more have been infected by them. Very few have had the opportunity to actually look inside the…
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Preparing for DDoS attacks
Not everyone despaired over the Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks that hit some of the Web’s biggest e-commerce sites in February. Security consultants and developers of security…
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GitHub wipes hand across bloodied face, stumbles from brutal DDoS beating
Wouldn’t have happened if you’d just used SVN, eh! Popular source-code warehouse GitHub was back online today after weathering a huge denial-of-service attack throughout the week.…
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US charges 13 Anonymous members for DDoS attacks
The U.S. has brought criminal charges against 13 persons, said to be members of the hacker group Anonymous, for their alleged participation in cyberattacks as part of a…
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GitHub Struggles With Second Day Of DDoS Attacks
Code sharing site GitHub has been fending off large distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks for two days now, with the site repeatedly taken offline. The attacks started…