2015
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Cloud security: Integrated global CDN with DDoS mitigation and WAF
Applications are becoming more accessible on the web across all industries including gaming, e-commerce, software, and media. This is great for reaching new customers around the globe, but…
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Carphone Warehouse hackers used DDoS attack as smokescreen
Hackers bombarded Carphone Warehouse with online traffic as a smokescreen while they stole the personal and banking details of 2.4 million people, according to sources with knowledge of…
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Hackers are blackmailing banks with threats of DDoS attacks
Hackers are threatening banks and other financial institutions with Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks if they don’t pay them tens of thousands of dollars, according to various reports…
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DDoS attacks rage on, primarily impacting U.S. and Chinese entities
Organizations in the U.S. and China should be especially aware of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, as more than half of them in Q2 of this year were aimed…
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DDoS Attack Temporarily Shuts Down International ‘DOTA 2? Tournament
The International DOTA 2 tournament is underway, but a reported DDoS attack forced Valve to suspend the matches for several hours. The tournament has had several Internet-related problems…
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Curriculum Protests: DDoS attacks launched on official, pan-blue Web sites
In what it said was support for the ongoing curriculum protests, hacker group Anonymous Asia yesterday launched a third wave of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against…
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FBI to Banks: DDoS Extortions Continue
Don’t Pay Attackers or Scammers, Security Experts Warn Numerous firms across the financial services sector – and beyond – continue to face a variety of distributed-denial-of-attack and data…
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DDoS Attacks Take Down RBS, Ulster Bank, and Natwest Online Systems
The Royal Bank of Scotland group of banks suffered nearly a fifty minute outage to their on-line banking systems today as a result of a Distributed Denial of Service…
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FBI Warns of Increase in DDoS Extortion Scams
Online scammers constantly are looking for new ways to reach into the pockets of potential victims, and the FBI says it is seeing an increase in the number…
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NatWest: Our website was ‘targeted’
NatWest Bank has blamed earlier problems with its website on a series of deliberate attacks, known as a distributed denial of service (DDoS)