2015
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A Javascript-based DDoS Attack as seen by Safe Browsing
To protect users from malicious content, Safe Browsing’s infrastructure analyzes web pages with web browsers running in virtual machines. This allows us to determine if a page contains…
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DDoS threat recognized by all members of the C-suite
The increasing number and size of DDoS attacks and their costly and devastating effects on brand perception have not passed unnoticed by North American businesses, most of which…
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Banks Lose Up to $100K/Hour to Shorter, More Intense DDoS Attacks
Distributed denial of service attacks have morphed from a nuisance to something more sinister. In a DDoS attack, heavy volumes of traffic are hurled at a website to…
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Mexican news site suffers DDoS Attack after publishing article on State Massacre
After publishing the article — titled “It Was The Feds” — news portal Aristegui Noticias reported suffering distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, which brought the site down for…
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The rise and rise of bad bots – little DDoS
Many will be familiar with the term bot, short for web-robot. Bots are essential for effective operation of the web: web-crawlers are a type of bot, automatically trawling…
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Week in review: APT wars, 18-year-old bug endangers Windows users, and main sources of data breaches
Here's an overview of some of last week's most interesting news and articles: Simda botnet taken down in global operation The Simda botnet, believed to have infected more…
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Namecheap DNS Under DDoS Attack
Namecheap DNS hosting is under a DDoS attack, as a result millions of websites are offline. The company issued a statement : We regret to let you know…
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How startup GitHub survived a massive five-day DDoS attack
The collaborative coding site scrambled to withstand the opening salvo from what researchers dubbed China’s Great Cannon. But CEO Chris Wanstrath says that was just the beginning. To…
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Borg routers open to repeat remote DoS attack
Patches cooked for five versions of Cisco’s IOS Remote attackers can send some Cisco routers into a continuous denial of service funk by rebooting network processor chips with…