2014
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JP Morgan Chase and Bank of America targets for DDoS attacks
Major US financial firms JP Morgan Chase and the Bank of America have been targeted by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, according to one hacktivist group.…
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Russian SpyEye author pleads guilty to starting malware onslaught
FBI went down to Georgia Russian national Aleksandr Andreevich Panin has pleaded guilty to charges of banking and wire fraud for his role in developing the SpyEye Trojan,…
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DDoS attacks become smarter, faster and more severe
DDoS attacks will continue to be a serious issue in 2014 – as attackers become more agile and their tools become more sophisticated, according to Radware. Their report…
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Whaleoil down due to DDOS attack
Controversial right wing website, Whaleoil, has been taken offline by a cyber attack and its editor has received death threats after he labelled a West Coast man killed…
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Education sector is fastest growing for DDoS mitigation
The education sector is the fastest growing segment in taking up distributed denial of service (DDoS) mitigation, according to DDoS protection services firm DOSarrest. The firm’s CTO Jag…
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Top 10 DDoS attack trends
Prolexic Technologies, a provider of DDoS protection services, published its top 10 attack trends for 2013. Throughout the year, metrics were collected from all DDoS attacks launched against…
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Former hacker Mitchell Frost explains his motivation for launching a DDoS attack
In 2006, Mitchell Frost, then a 19-year-old college student at the University of Akron, used the school’s computer network to control the botnets he had created. Authorities say…
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Shape-shifting tech ‘defeats hacks’
A Google-backed start-up borrows a commonly used hacking technique to protect websites against botnets and other malware threats.
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Botnet PC armies gulp down 16 MILLION logins from around the web: Find out if you’re a victim
Scheiße! Überprüfen Sie Ihre Angaben in neuen Datenbank Officials in Germany have warned that large networks of hijacked, hacker-controlled PCs – aka botnets – have harvested 16 million…
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Don’t be a DDoS dummy: Patch your NTP servers, plead infosec bods
Popular attack method could be stopped with a config tweak Security researchers have responded to recent denial of service attacks against gaming websites and service providers that rely…