2015
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Xbox Live Suffers DDoS Disruption, Playstation Network May Be Next
A DDoS attack initiated by grey-hat hacker group Phantom Squad may have taken Microsoft’s Xbox Live online network offline for at least 3 hours today. If the hacker…
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Hacker squad plans DDoS attacks on PlayStation Network, Xbox Live this Christmas
Hacker group Phantom Squad plans to shut down Xbox Live and PlayStation Network on Christmas. Forget the Grinch, there’s someone else who wants to steal Christmas. Phantom Squad,…
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‘Phantom’ menace threatens to down Xbox Live, PSN at Xmas
Hackers reveal plans to make children cry Last Christmas LizardSquad played Grinch with the holiday fun of gamers by knocking out XBox Live and smacking the PlayStation Network…
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Boston internet service disrupted briefly by DDoS attack
Internet service in Boston was disrupted on Tuesday in what is being called a “minor act of cybervandalism,” according to the Boston Herald . The outage, affecting city…
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Web host Moonfruit defies Armada DDoS crew … by (temporarily) defeating itself
Move follows 45-minute attack last Thursday Web host Moonfruit last night began putting its systems back online after taking down customers’ sites in order to upgrade defences in…
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Moonfruit takes down thousands of sites after a DDoS attack
Moonfruit, a free website builder, has taken thousands of business and personal websites offline following a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. The company’s users are disappointed by…
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Are your competitors organizing DDoS attacks against you?
According to recent research from Kaspersky Lab and B2B International, nearly half (48 per cent) of the companies surveyed believe they know the identity and motivation of those…
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Cyber criminals not to blame for all DDoS attacks, study shows
There is a real concern that many companies are being affected by the DDoS attacks commissioned by competitors, according to Kaspersky Lab Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are…
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OpTrump: Anonymous declares war on Donald Trump with DDOS attack following Muslim ban speech
Hacktivist group Anonymous has continued to add to its list of targets, with controversial US presidential candidate Donald Trump the latest in the crosshairs. Following Trump’s radical speech…
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Mysterious hackers attempting to bring down entire internet by DDoS-ing critical servers
Mysterious hackers are yet again trying to bring down the entire internet by bombarding crucial servers that support it with a gigantic, sustained distributed denial of service (DDoS)…