2014
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Second Anonymous member sentenced for role in DDoS attack
The U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Wisconsin, has sentenced Jacob Wilkens to 24 months of probation and ordered him to pay $110,932.71 in restitution for his role…
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Stack Overflow goes down for an hour on Sunday due to DDoS attack
Stack Overflow went out for about an hour on Sunday morning due to a DDoS attack, TechCrunch reported. Stack Overflow is a question and answer website focused on…
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Bitcoin Value Plunges as DDoS Strikes Currency Exchanges Read
Russia and China are backing out of the Bitcoin business. Recent DDoS attacks on a number of major Bitcoin exchanges have caused them to suspend trade. Mt Gox,…
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Doing more to protect your DNS from DDoS
According to a recent Arbor Networks report on infrastructure security, the number of DDoS attacks on enterprise DNS servers is on the rise but, despite this, many businesses…
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400Gbps NTP-based DDoS attack hits Cloudflare
Matthew Prince, CEO of content delivery network Cloudflare, has confirmed on Twitter on Monday that one of its customers was being targeted with a very big Network Time…
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Exchange Halts Payouts as DDoS Attack Pummels Bitcoin
A second major bitcoin exchange suspended withdrawals on Tuesday, amidst widespread attacks on the vast software system that drives the digital currency. Bitstamp, an exchange based on Slovenia,…
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Europe shrugs off largest DDoS attack yet, traffic tops 400Gbps
NTP flaw used again, effects minimal Once again hackers are targeting content-delivery firm Cloudfare, and the company says this latest attack is its biggest yet, peaking at over…
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Largest ever DDoS attack
CloudFlare said that the attack was close to 400Gbps in size, making it bigger than last year’s DDoS attack against anti-spam outfit Spamhaus, which was measured at just…
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DDoS attack toolkit simplifies the launch of large reflection attacks
Prolexic Technologies issued a high alert DDoS attack threat advisory on the DNS Flooder v1.1 toolkit. The toolkit makes it faster and easier for malicious actors to launch…
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Snapchat bug lets hackers aim DENIAL of SERVICE attacks at YOUR MOBE
Researcher allegedly blocked after he went public A security consultant who works for Telefonica has turned up a bug in how Snapchat handles authentication tokens, which enables a…