2015
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Denial of service attacks pour through rift in Network Time Protocol
Mismatched clocks allow poison packets to prevent synching, and sink you Red Hat security chap Miroslav Lichvar has revealed two vulnerabilities in the Network Time Protocol (NTP) that…
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DOSarrest External Monitoring Service launches iOS and Android App
VANCOUVER , April 8, 2015 /PRNewswire/ – DOSarrest Internet Security, a fully managed cloud based DDoS protection service, today announced that their DOSarrest External Monitoring Service (DEMS), a real-time…
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Israeli sites targeted by annual Anonymous ‘OpIsrael’ DDoS attacks
Israeli sites targeted by annual Anonymous ‘OpIsrael’ cyber attacks Hackers fail to bring down government websites, but successfully target sites belonging to musicians, organization for excellence in education…
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Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo collaborating to stop DDoS attacks
Xbox boss Phil Spencer has been talking with his rivals to see how they can avoid a repeat of the Christmas Xbox Live and PSN downtime. It’s very…
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The best way to stop DDoS attacks
For the fastest response, you can’t beat in-path deployment of a high-performance DDoS mitigation device that is able to detect and mitigate immediately Experiencing a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS)…
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University servers not at risk for information breach during DDoS attacks
Last week, University servers were hit by a Distributed Denial of Service attack that led to the shutdown of Sakai and the Central Authentication system, rendering RUWireless inoperable…
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Michigan High School Student Facing Charges After lauching DDoS attack on School Network
A student at Monroe High School in Monroe, Michigan, was recently caught conducting a distributed denial of service attack (DDoS), and Monroe Public Schools Superintendent Barry Martin says…
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Anonymous proxies now used in a fifth of DDOS attacks
The number of DDOS attacks using anonymous proxies has increased The number of distributed denial of service attacks using anonymous proxies has increased dramatically over the past year,…
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DDoS attack temporarily blocks seattletimes.com
A denial-of-service attack, in which perpetrators flood a targeted website with requests that overwhelm the site’s servers, is believed to have caused Monday morning’s outage. A cyberattack took…