2014
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4 million UPnP devices may be vulnerable to attack
Akamai has observed the use of a new reflection and amplification DDoS attack that deliberately misuses communications protocols that come enabled on millions of home and office devices,…
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Hong Kong Protests: Anonymous Hackers Leak Chinese Government Data, Shutdown Websites
Hundreds of phone numbers, names, IP addresses and email addresses from Chinese government websites have been leaked online by the hacktivist collective Anonymous in support of pro-democracy protests…
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InSerbia News under DDoS attack from Serbia
Internet portal InSerbia News was unavailable on Saturday for a few hours due to a DDoS attack. The attack was committed from IP addresses in the range that…
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Researcher makes the case for DDOS attacks
When you start with the premise that capitalism is illegitimate it’s easy to dismiss other people’s property rights. To some people, a political mission matters more than anything,…
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.Anonymous threatens China, Hong Kong authorities with website blackout for DDoS attacks
Anonymous, the nebulous online activist group that uses hacking to further causes it supports, has threatened a major blackout of Chinese and Hong Kong government websites, and to…
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Interview with a DDoS troll: Meet ‘the Gods of the Internet’
DDoS attacks are a way to keep corrupt corporations honest, according to an anonymous member of DerpTrolling, who gives us an inside look at the self-proclaimed gods of…
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DDoS Attacks Can Take Down Your Online Services Part 3: Defending Against DDoS Attacks
Various defense strategies can be invoked to defend against DDoS attacks. Many of these depend upon the intensity of the attack. We discuss some of these in this…
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133 DDoS attacks over 100Gbps so far in 2014
Arbor Networks released global DDoS attack data for Q3 2014 showing a remarkable increase in Simple Service Discovery Protocol (SSDP) reflection attacks. Arbor monitored very few attacks using…
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Monster banking Trojan botnet claims 500,000 victims
This ain’t your father’s ZeuS Security researchers have uncovered the infrastructure behind one of largest and most voracious banking Trojan networks uncovered to date.…
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Yahoo! servers! SHELLSHOCKED! by! Bash! bug! bad! boys!
Hash bang wallop Updated Yahoo ! has confirmed “a handful” of its systems fell to hackers exploiting the Shellshock vulnerability in Bash. The miscreants used the hole…