2014
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Bitly faces complete shutdown of services due to DDoS attack
Online URL shortening services provided by Bitly are down due to a DDoS attack and engineers were trying to solve the issues at the time of publishing Online…
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Theresa May Home Office website DDoS attack: Man charged
A man is being charged with attacking websites belonging to the Home Office and the Home Secretary Theresa May. Mark Lynden Johnson, 43, from Stoke-on-Trent, is being charged…
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Pony up: Botnet succesfully targets Bitcoin
Password-lifting network converted to cryptocoin-thievery Another $US200,000-plus worth of Bitcoins has been lifted, according to Trustwave, which has identified a new Pony botnet targeting crypto-currencies.…
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Apple Daily in Hong Kong and Taiwan hit by DDoS attack
Apple Daily said its websites for both Hong Kong and Taiwan were hit by DDoS attacks on Saturday. IP addresses reveal that attacks originated from China, Russia, and…
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Next generation anti-DDoS appliances from Huawei
Huawei announced the launch of its next-generation anti-DDoS solution at RSA Conference 2014. Huawei's AntiDDoS8000 Series offers industry leading security capabilities, including 1Tbps performanc…
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Cyber attacks: preventing disruption to your website
One of the largest ever cyber attacks took place this month and it has been cited that it was the shape of things to come. But it is…
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Namecheap's DNS server hit with a "new type" of DDoS
Popular domain registrar and web hosting service Namecheap has been having trouble with an unexpected DDoS attack targeting 300 or so domains on two of their their DNS…
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Namecheap Is In The Middle Of A DDoS Attack
If any of your favorite sites don’t seem to be working right now, don’t panic — it’s not just you. Namecheap, the host of some 3 million-plus domains,…
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Bounty offer over game taken offline
The creators of online game Wurm are offering a 10,000-euro bounty to catch whoever took company servers offline with a denial of service attack.
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MMO developer offering $14,000 reward for DDoS attack info
If you know a little thing or two about MMOs and a little more about DDOS attacks, you might be able to net yourself a near $15,000 bounty.…