2014
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How Mega founder Kim Dotcom helped Xbox Live, PSN recover from Lizard Squad’s DDoS attack
How Kim Dotcom helped stop holiday Xbox Live and PSN DDoS attacks Over the Christmas holiday, a loosely organized group of hackers known as Lizard Squad took down Microsoft’s…
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Crunchyroll Streaming Service Down Amid DDoS Attack
The Crunchyroll streaming service announced on Tuesday that it is currently down due to a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack “of the same magnitude” as those recently…
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DDoS attack on Swedish Parliament’s website
The official website of the Swedish Parliament was taken down on Tuesday, in what officials labelled “an outside attack”. The website, riksdagen.se, was taken down at 11am on…
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‘Bitcoin Baron’ claims credit for City of Columbia, KOMU DDoS attacks
He cited a 2010 SWAT raid in Columbia as his motivation behind the DDoS attacks. An individual is taking credit for the distributed denial of service attacks on…
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Sony FINGERS DDoS attackers for ruining PlayStation’s Xmas
Malefactors turned festivities into a turkey for online gamers Sony has blamed distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attackers for causing PlayStation’s network to go titsup on Christmas Day.…
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Sony issues formal response to DDoS attacks in PSN update
For the first time in days, Sony has issued a formal response to the ongoing distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) affecting various networks in the gaming industry, including PlayStation Network.…
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Update: Columbia’s website back online after cyber attack; KOMU down from DDoS attack
UPDATE: This story has been updated to include details of another denial of service attack on KOMU and additional comments on FBI involvement in investigating the attack on…
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PlayStation clambers back online 48 hours after DDoS attack CRIPPLED network
Titsup gaming service struggling to return to life Sony’s PlayStation network is slowly returning to normal service roughly 48 hours after it was hit by another major denial-of-service…