2014
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Huobi Site Down as It Fends Against DDOS Attacks
Huobi, claimed to be the world’s largest Bitcoin exchange by volume, appears to be down due to “maintenance” to fend off “a large number of DDOS attacks”. The…
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Westboro, Northboro Verizon service hit by DDoS attack
Since March 3 — and perhaps as far back as Feb. 26 — Verizon customers in Westboro and Northboro had been experiencing regular and constant interruptions to their…
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Hootsuite Quickly Responds To DoS Attack, Ensures Users Their Data Is Secure
At 6:45 am PST the team at HootSuite were forced to deal with a denial of service (DoS) attack. The company quickly responded to the attack and then…
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Hack DDoS attacks battled by net’s timekeepers
A massive worldwide effort is under way to harden the net’s clocks against hack attacks. The last few months have seen an “explosion” in the number of attacks…
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Elance hit by major DDoS attack, downing service for many freelancers
The freelancer platform Elance has been under a sustained distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack for more than a day, making the service unavailable for many users — but apparently…
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Gang wielding ColdFusion exploits expands botnet of hacked e-commerce sites
A German website of French automaker Citroën is the latest of the wide array of higher-profile webshop sites that have been compromised by a hacker gang leveraging Adobe…
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NATO websites hit by DDoS attack
Hackers brought down several public NATO websites over the weekend in what appeared to be the latest escalation in cyberspace over growing tensions over Crimea. A spokesperson for…
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Week in review: Target breach reaction fail, WordPress sites exploited in DDoS attack
Here's an overview of some of last week's most interesting news, podcasts, videos, interviews and articles: Latvia establishes a Cyber Defence Unit The newly established unit is part…
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NATO websites hit by cyber attacks
A number of NATO websites have been hit by cyber attacks, but they have had no impact on the military alliance’s operations, a NATO spokeswoman said. The attacks,…
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162,000 reasons to tighten up WordPress security
“Cyber-criminals continue to innovate and find vulnerabilities to exploit for their criminal activity” says Lancope CTO Tim Keanini. 162,000 reasons to tighten up WordPress security WordPress may be…