2015
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Abe’s official website latest to come under possible cyber attack by Anonymous
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe may have had his official website attacked by the ‘hacktivist’ Anonymous group, local media reported Thursday. According to Japan’s public NHK broadcaster, Abe’s…
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DNS Root Servers Hit by DDoS Attack
Unknown parties carried out a large-scale DDoS attack on the Internet’s DNS root servers, causing slight timeouts for four nodes, more exactly on the B, C, G, and…
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DDoS attacks increase 180% compared to a year ago
Akamai Technologies announced its Q3 2015 report, which provides analysis and insight into the global cloud security threat landscape. “Akamai has been seeing greater numbers of denial of…
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Unknown Copycat Using Armada Collective Name for DDoS-for-Bitcoin Extortions
Cyber-crime syndicates are moving in, pushing script kiddies out of the picture, expect more large-scale attacks After the success of DDoSing outfits like DD4BC and Armada Collective, an…
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Sputnik Türkiey website became the target of a DDoS attack
Access to the site was blocked for an hour due to a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack carried out by unknown perpetrator(s). The website’s IT specialists managed to quickly deal with the attack and Sputnik…
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UK research network Janet still being slapped by DDoS attack
DNS services appear to be targeted, switching may work Members of UK’s academic community from freshers to senior academics are facing more connection issues today as a persistent…
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UK research network Janet under ongoing and persistent DDoS attack
Attackers seem to be adjusting methods in response to Tweets Publicly-funded academic computer network Janet has come under a persistent DDoS attack today, which hobbled multiple internet connections,…
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White hats, FBI and cops team up for Dorkbot botnet takedown
Your four-year reign of terror is (temporarily) over Operations of the Dorkbot botnet have been disrupted following an operation that brought together law enforcement agencies led by the…