2014
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Hackers launch DDoS attack on Obamacare website server, user data safe
In what could be another jolt for US President Barack Obama’s dream project ‘Obamacare health insurance program’, a government cybersecurity team last week discovered that an unknown hacker…
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Report on China’s underground services for DDoS Attacks
After analyzing trends in the Chinese underground, Trend Micro found that activity in the marketplace doubled between 2012 and 2013. Upon an even closer look, researchers at the…
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Anti-Piracy Outfit Denies launching DDoS attacks on Anime Sites
The effects of a DDoS attack that crippled NYAA, one of the largest anime torrent sites, continue today with fingers being pointed at everyone from the Japanese government…
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Semalt botnet hijacked nearly 300k computers
The “Semalt” botnet is quickly spreading across the Internet, Incapsula researchers warn. The botnet is named after a Ukrainian startup that poses as a legitimate online SEO service,…
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Linux systems infiltrated and controlled in a DDoS botnet
Akamai Technologies is alerting enterprises to a high-risk threat of IptabLes and IptabLex infections on Linux systems. Malicious actors may use infected Linux systems to launch DDoS attacks…
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DDoS Attacks: Increasingly the Weapon of Choice
Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are a method attackers favor for disrupting an organization’s operations by flooding the network with traffic, overwhelming available bandwidth, and making network…
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Russia’s Zvezda television channel website comes under DDoS attack
The channel’s technical experts managed to partially restore the website’s operation, but it is still not working properly Russia’s Zvezda television channel website came under a DDoS attack…
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FBI probe into hack and DDoS attacks on banks
THE Federal Bureau of Investigation is probing a computer-hacking attack on JPMorgan Chase and as many as four other banks, in what people familiar with the probe described…
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Anonymous Hacked Ferguson Police Servers and Launched a DDOS Attack
Police officers in Ferguson, Missouri have been forced to communicate via text message after Anonymous launched a DDOS attack against the city’s servers shutting them down, following the…