2014
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DDoS Attack Puts Code Spaces Out of Business
Days after Feedly and Evernote were briefly forced offline by hackers demanding a ransom payment, a code-hosting service was run out of business by a similar scheme. CodeSpaces.com…
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Code hosting Code Spaces destroyed by extortion hack attack
Cloud code hosting service Code Spaces is forced to shut down, as a DDoS attack coupled with an unsuccessful extortion attempt was followed by the attacker deleting most…
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Ancestry.com working to fully restore services following DDoS attack
The genealogy website Ancestry.com is working to fully restore its service after it was hit by a Distributed Denial of Service attack. Company spokeswoman Heather Erickson says it…
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YOU’RE HISTORY: Ancestry.com goes titsup for TWO DAYS
Did dads storm site on Father’s Day? Some seem to think so The genealogy site Ancestry.com has been blasted off the internet after reportedly being hit by a…
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Five steps towards cyber breach preparation
Earlier this week, Domino’s Pizza became the latest victim of a breach and ransom demand. Recent DDoS attacks on Evernote and Feedly DDoS, along with the efforts of…
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Microsoft patches DoS flaw in its Malware Protection Engine
Microsoft has released an update for its Malware Protection Engine to fix a privately reported security vulnerability that could allow a denial of service if the Microsoft Malware…
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Hong Kong Voting Site Suffers DDoS Attack Before Civil Referendum
Just days before a citizen-led online referendum on voting rights, the technical platform that advocates had planned to use for the referendum suffered a massive DDoS attack. From…
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Financial ransomware now targeting U.S. users
Although the GameOver Zeus botnet and CryptoLocker ransomware have been disrupted, it is still too early for a victory celebration. First, the two week deadline expires on June…
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Entirely new trojan quietly wheeled into black hat forums
Pandemiya is 25,000 lines of original password-pinching botnet badassery An RSA researcher claims to have found an entirely new trojan during his trawls of the criminal underground.…
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Feedly suffers second round of DDoS attacks after perpetrator tried to extort money
Update 7.26am PST (June 12) After initially giving the all-clear for business to resume, Feedly has announced that it’s currently suffering a second round of DDoS attacks. The…