2014
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London teen charged over Spamhaus mega-DDoS attacks
Accused will tap the boards before the beak today An unnamed London teenager has been charged with a series of criminal offences following a series of denial-of-service attacks…
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Brobot botnet used to launch DDoS attack
DOSarrest Internet Security had a run in with the notorious Brobot Botnet, if the name sounds familiar it’s because this bot was responsible for sporadic outages on a…
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Drastic decline in vulnerable NTP servers due to Heartbleed?
In light of the escalation of DDoS attacks used as a means of extorting money from online businesses, the news that there has been a significant decrease in…
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Sysadmins rejoice! Patch rampage killing off nasty DDoS attack vector
Server fleet open to NTP attack drops from 400k to just 17,000 Sysadmins rejoice! NSFOCUS researchers say hundreds of thousands of Network Time Protocol (NTP) servers have been…
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Got a botnet? Thinking of using it to mine Bitcoin? Don’t bother
McAfee says crooks will be better off sticking to spam and DDoS Despite an increase in popularity over recent months amongst botnet operators, malware-powered Bitcoin mining brings little…
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Are DDoS attacks becoming more sophisticated?
If you’ve taken the time to read the various security articles over the last few months, you’ll quickly realise that the relatively nascent Bitcoin is well acquainted with…
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DDoS Attack Hit Hong Kong Democracy Voting Website
Hackers and cyber attacks are getting evil and worst nightmare for companies day-by-day. Just last week a group of hackers ruined the code-hosting and software collaboration platform, ‘Code…
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WiFi WarKitteh and DDoS Dog to stalk DEF CON 22
Pets make purrrfect pawns for surreptitious signal slurping A security boffin has created a ‘WarKitteh’ capable of sniffing WiFi packets.…
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‘Most sophisticated DDoS’ ever strikes Hong Kong democracy poll
Cloudflare claims tip-off allowed it to tip traffic into sinkholes One of the largest and most sophisticated distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks has hit a controversial online…
