2015
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Valve Reveals Details About Christmas Issues, Personal Info Was Shown, DDoS Attack Involved
Christmas is usually a very busy time for Valve because of the major sales that the company has a habit of running on the Steam digital distribution system,…
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BBC reports on BBC tweet about BBC websites DDoS
The BBC’s website and iPlayer service went down on Thursday morning following a cyber attack causing widespread panic on social media A BBC Technology journalist later posted an…
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Linode Hit by DDoS Attacks
Cloud hosting company Linode has suffered a series of service interruptions due to distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks launched against its infrastructure over the past few days. The campaign…
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Rutgers University Suffers Sixth DDoS Attack This Year
Three cyber-security firms could not handle the attack Rutgers University’s IT department has managed to restore all services after a large-scale DDoS attack kept some of its systems…
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2016 will see the rise of DDoS-as-a-service
We’ve already seen a big increase in DDoS attacks in the past year and according to the latest predictions these are set to continue and become more sinister…
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Massive DDoS Attacks of Over 1 Million Queries Per Second Threaten Root Servers That Support The Global Internet
Today, we share a blog post from Looking Glass’ Director of Product Management, Patrick Lynch, as he discusses distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on DNS root servers.…
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Turkish banks & government sites under ‘intense’ DDoS attacks on Christmas holidays
Turkey is suffering from a wave of cyber-attacks on financial and government websites which intensified over Christmas, resulting in the temporary disruption of credit card transactions. A video…
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Xen Project blunder blows own embargo with premature bug report
Malicious guest could eat your virtual rigs from the inside The Xen Project has reported a new bug, XSA-169 , that means “A malicious guest could cause repeated…
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Anonymous Claims Responsibility For 40 Gbps DDoS Attack on Turkish Servers
The online hacktivist Anonymous has claimed the responsibility for a massive 40Gbps DDoS attack on Turkish DNS Servers under NIC.tr — The reason behind the attack is that Turkey…