2014
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DDoS attack takes down City of Columbia website
Columbia Deputy City Manager says a hacker group took responsibility for the attack on GoColumbiaMo.com A City of Columbia official said the city’s website, gocolumbiamo.com, suffered a cyber…
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Xbox Live and PSN Face DDoS Attacks Throughout Christmas Eve and Day
During a day when people are booting up their new Xbox Ones and PlayStation 4s for the first time, a group of Grinches have decided to try and…
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DDoS attacks carry six-figure price tag for businesses
The average distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack costs large businesses an average of $444,000 in lost revenue and subsequent IT spending, according to a recent survey by B2B International.…
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Alibaba : Cloud Suffered DDoS Attack for 14 Hours
A well-known game company on Alibaba Cloud Computing suffered a DDoS attack for 14 hours from December 20 to 21. However, Alibaba has not disclosed the name of…
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Rackspace restored after DDOS takes out DNS
25-hour incident blocked traffic from reaching rackspace.com and some subdomains Rackspace says it has recovered from a nasty distributed denial of service attack that it says may have…
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Garden-variety DDoS attack knocks North Korea off the Internet
Experts cite the fragility of North Korea’s connection, note that routine DDoS attacks could have easily forced the country offline The simplest explanation for North Korea’s suddenly dropping…
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DDoS Attacks ‘major concern for Saudi firms’
Leading IT decision-makers in the Kingdom have indicated that distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks are fast becoming a main security risk in for Saudi businesses. This was stated in…
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50% of companies unprepared for DDoS attacks
Research carried out by Kaspersky Lab and B2B International has revealed that only 50% of companies regard countermeasures against distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks as an important…
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US Officials Believe North Korea Was Involved In Sony Hacks
U.S. officials say they believe that North Korea’s government was involved in the large-scale hack of Sony servers, which led to the leak of troves of Sony data…