2014
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How EA, League of Legends & Battle.net Were Brought Down By DDoS Attacks
Last week, a group calling themselves DERP launched DDoS attacks on the servers of a number of the world’s biggest games (and games companies). It seemed like an…
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Could Cross-site scripting (XSS) be the chink in your website’s armour?
Sean Power, security operations manager for DOSarrest Internet Security , gives his advice on how businesses that rely heavily on their web presences can avoid (inadvertently) making their…
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Yahoo malware creates Bitcoin botnet
Adverts loaded with malware on Yahoo’s homepage have installed software that mines bitcoins.
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DDoS attacks costly for online companies
Distributed denial of service, or DDoS, attacks can be hugely damaging to companies that rely on their online presence for sales and new business, says DDoS mitigation provider,…
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Steam and Origin gamers knocked offline by SEPARATE DDoS attacks
OK, who hates fun? Valve’s online gaming platform Steam and Electronic Arts’ Origin were hit by separate DDoS attacks over the weekend.…
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DDoS Attacks: What They Are, and How to Defend Against Them
You may have heard of a DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attack in the news as a method used by malicious hackers to attack a website. It’s possible you’ve even…
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WoW gamers targeted with trojanized Curse client
The DDoS attacks that temporarily took down Blizzard's Battle.net and Valve's Steam online gaming services over the end of the year holidays have undoubtedly annoyed players, but posed…
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Steam, Blizzard and EA hit by DDoS attacks
There’s something about the new year that gets hackers all excited as the DDoS attacks continue. The last major attack was on 31 December with DERP unleashing their…
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Slovenian jailed for creating code behind 12 MILLION strong ‘Mariposa’ botnet army
Butterfly flapped its wings and caused internet hurricane A Slovenian virus writer who created an infamous strain of malware used to infect an estimated 12 million computers worldwide…