2014
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PEAK IPV4? Global IPv6 traffic is growing, DDoS dying, says Akamai
First time the cache network has seen drop in use of 32-bit-wide IP addresses Broadband and IPv6 are hot – and distributed denial-of-service attacks and IPv4 are not.…
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Shellshock: ‘LARGER SCALE ATTACK’ on its way, warn securo-bods
Not just web servers under threat – though TENS of THOUSANDS have been hit The Shellshock vulnerability has already become the focus for malicious scanning and at least…
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Telegram under 150Gbps DDoS attack
Cross platform messaging app Telegram has been a target of massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks for two days in a row over the weekend with the…
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Spammer uses innocent hacked blogs to punt NAKED PICS of JLaw, McKayla Maroney
Gran’s knitting site etc sucked up into pr0n spam botnet A long established smut spammer is using hacked websites to sell stolen photographs of naked celebrities including Jennifer…
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Ello? ello? ello?: Facebook challenger in DDoS KNOCKOUT
Gets back up again after half an hour though Ello, the social network site intended to serve as something of an antidote to ad-stuffed Facebook, was hit by…
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DDoS Attacks Target Online Gaming Sites, Enterprises
DDoS traffic volume was up overall with a third peaking at over 500Mbps and more than five percent reaching up to 4Gbps, according to NSFOCUS. A continuing trend…
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Bad boy builds beastly Bash bug botnet – boxen battered
DDoS zombie army found in the wild hours after flaw surfaces Mere hours after its discovery, the Shell Shock Bash vulnerability was exploited by an attacker to build…
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Bad boy builds beastly Bash bug botnet, brutally batters boxes
DDoS zombie army found in the wild hours after flaw surfaces Mere hours after its discovery, the Shell Shock Bash vulnerability was exploited by an attacker to build…
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Hackers Are Already Using the Shellshock Bug to Launch Botnet Attacks
With a bug as dangerous as the “shellshock” security vulnerability discovered yesterday, it takes less than 24 hours to go from proof-of-concept to pandemic. As of Thursday, multiple…