2014
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Toronto Police Service website down after DDoS attack
The Toronto Police Service website went down on Sunday evening after a Twitter user threatened to hack it. According to police, the site was the subject of a…
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Anonymous pledges more attacks in Canada
The Anonymous hacker group that carried out Friday’s cyber attack on Ottawa’s City Hall has pledged attacks on eight more targets, including Ottawa Police and the Supreme Court.…
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Bahrain newspaper’s website brought down by DDoS attack
The website of Bahrain’s leading Arabic newspaper was brought down in a massive malicious attack yesterday (Saturday), the day the country went to the polls. And though the…
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Drupal Patches Denial of Service Vulnerability
Details on a patched denial of service vulnerability in the open source Drupal content management system have been disclosed. The vulnerability, patched yesterday, could be abused to crash…
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Sophisticated Android-based botnet a danger to enterprise networks
A new, more sophisticated and more stealthy version of the NotCompatible Android Trojan continues to strengthen one of the most long-lived and advanced mobile botnets ever to exist…
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2015 DDoS attacks to come from Vietnam, India and Indonesia
Vietnam, India and Indonesia might not have the most advanced Internet infrastructure, but they do have a large number of insecure smartphones coming online, making them the big…
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‘Most advanced mobile botnet EVER’ is coming for your OFFICE Androids
NotCompatible A newly discovered variant of NotCompatible is establishing what has been called the most advanced mobile botnet yet created.…
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DDoS attacks continue to fall in size and frequency
The newest up-and-coming countries of origin for DDoS attacks will be Vietnam, India and Indonesia in 2015, according to Black Lotus. While these countries don’t have the necessary…
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Asian mobiles the DDOS threat of 2015, security mob says
Beware traffic from hacked Vietnam, India and Indonesia fondleslabs Vietnam, India and Indonesia will be the distributed denial of service volcanoes of next year due to the profieration…
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Fasthosts outage blamed on DDoS attack
Fasthosts’ five-hour collapse today has been blamed on a Distributed Denial of Service attack and a security flaw spotted on its Windows 2003 shared web server kit. The…