2014
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Holy cow! Fasthosts outage blamed on DDoS hack attack AND Windows 2003 vuln
Monday, bloody Monday 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…
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#OpKKK: Anonymous launches DDoS attacks on KKK websites
Anonymous claims it has taken down several Ku Klux Klan websites and Twitter accounts as part of what internet hacktivists describe as a “cyber war”, inspired by KKK…
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DDoS Attack Against Svenska Spel
The debate about Sweden’s restrictive online gambling legislation is heating up, as Gustaf Hoffstedt , from the country’s Moderate Party, proposed a motion to the Swedish Parliament to…
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The Bitcoin Forum At Bitcointalk.org Went Offline Due to DoS attack
Bitcointalk.org, the Bitcoin Forum, is currently offline with the official explanation being a DOS attack. In the past, Bitcointalk.org has faced hacks, man-in-the-middle attacks, and DDOS. According to isitdownrightnow,…
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Blizzard confirms World of Warcraft target of DDoS attack
Update 5:50 a.m. PST: The servers are now down for maintenance, and the attack is over. If further ones happen, we’ll announce accordingly. Update 8:15 p.m. PST The…
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Dormant IP addresses RIPE for hijacking
‘That’s not us spamming, honest’ cries hosting firm Spammers are using loop holes in the internet routing registry to commandeer address space and pump out junk mail, and…
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WordPress Security: Prevent Brute Force and DDoS Attacks
Earlier this year, a WordPress XML-RPC exploit was used to launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) and brute force attacks against WordPress websites. As WordPress continues to grow in popularity…
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Don’t blame Obama, but DDoS attacks are now using his press releases
A new form of Domain Name Service-based distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks that emerged in October, attacks that can significantly boost the volume of data flung at…
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Defending against the dark arts of DDoS
In the magical world of Harry Potter, the boy wizard and his cohorts were enrolled in a class called Defence Against the Dark Arts as part of their…
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Your computer might be launching a DDoS attack
India stands first in a list of 50 countries where distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) originate and cybercriminals can get DDoS attacks on hire for Rs. 300 for a three-minute…