2014
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Blizzard games still suffering after DDoS attack
Blizzard has confirmed that some of its games are being affected by distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS attacks) on its European online services. Diablo , World of Warcraft…
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DDoS Trends Report Reveals Spike in Botnet Activity
A new study documenting distributed denial of service (DDoS) trends found an average of more than twelve million unique botnet-driven DDoS attacks are occurring weekly in the last…
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Week in review: Banks sue Target and Trustwave, Basecamp DDoS, Fyodor restarts the Full Disclosure list
Here's an overview of some of last week's most interesting news, reviews and articles: Flaws in Android update mechanism could turn apps into malware A group of researchers…
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Anonymous DDoS Attack Hits Albuquerque Police Dept. In Response To Homeless Man James Boyd’s ‘Murder’
Anonymous has followed through with a threat to disable the Albuquerque Police Department (APD) website in retaliation for the fatal shooting of mentally ill man James Boyd earlier…
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Cisco patches six holes to stop DoS attacks
Cisco has released patches for six flaws in its Internetwork Operating System (IOS) which could be used as part of a DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack. The…
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When ZOMBIES attack: DDoS traffic triples as 20Gbps becomes the new normal
Junk traffic mostly floods in from botnets DDoS traffic has more than trebled since the start of 2013, according to a new study released on Thursday that fingers…
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Analysis of 244,703 DDoS incidents
NSFOCUS released its DDoS Threat Report 2013, which details attack trends and methodologies over the past year. The report includes statistical analysis and key observations based on 244,703…
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Beware the headless browser DDoS Attacks!
The attacks that you nor your security provider know about, the classic “unknown unknowns”, are often seen as the biggest challenge. I met with Jag Baines, CTO…
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Basecamp gets DDoSed and blackmailed
Basecamp, formerly known as 37signals, has managed to largely mitigate a DDoS attack that started today (March 24) at 8:46 central time and which made its services unavailable…
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Why having a DDoS Playbook is essential for your organisation
Just like any major emergency, IT managers must prepare a playbook to follow in case a DDoS attack occurs. What follows are some of the most important considerations…