2015
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Prepare a new dossier! Pakistan’s cyber Mujahideen hit India
A month before Pakistan’s ceasefire violation on the eve of Independence Day, a silent battle was raging in Mumbai’s financial district. Two large private banks, a retail brokerage…
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DDoS attacks are getting much more powerful and the Pentagon is scrambling for solutions
No wonder the Pentagon has announced it’s working on a plan to fund tools and researchers to help organizations defend themselves against the pervasive threat of cyber assaults…
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Six teens arrested in UK for using hacking group’s paid DDoS service
Six teenagers were arrested by British police on suspicion of attacking websites, the country’s National Crime Agency (NCA) announced on Friday. The teenagers were users of the hacking…
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BitTorrent patches reflective DDoS attack security vulnerability
A vulnerability which could divert traffic to launch cyberattacks has been mitigated two weeks after public disclosure. BitTorrent has taken rapid steps to mitigate a flaw which could…
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81% of healthcare organizations have been compromised
Eighty-one percent of health care executives say that their organizations have been compromised by at least one malware, botnet, or other cyber-attack during the past two years, and…
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DARPA wants to take the sting out of DDoS attacks
While posing a minor inconvenience compared to other more malicious cyberattacks, distributed denial of service attacks post enough of a threat that the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency…
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The UK’s 12 worst DDoS attacks Summarized – hacktivism, extortion and plain malice
DDoS attacks are often seen as a global phenomenon that affects ISPs and large datacentres. But the daily damage is done by much smaller attacks on vulnerable, sometimes…