2015
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Half of companies under DDoS attack have critical data stolen
Neustar surveyed IT professionals from across EMEA to understand the impact of DDoS attacks. 40 percent of companies estimate hourly losses of over £100,000 at peak times during…
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Rutgers Suffers Foreign DDoS Attack
On Monday morning, Rutgers University was still trying to recover from a distributed denial of service (DDoS ) attack that had been launched against it over the weekend,…
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Massive DDoS against GitHub continues
Popular web-based Git repository hosting service GitHub has been battling a massive DDoS attack – the biggest they have ever experienced – for the last four days. “The…
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Botnets inflating Twitch audiences help broadcasters earn money
Most people dream about earning a living by doing something they enjoy. For some gamers, that dream is achievable by using Twitch, the game streaming service that offers…
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GitHub recovering from massive DDoS attacks
The attacks were aimed at two GitHub-hosted projects fighting Chinese censorship Software development platform GitHub said Sunday it was still experiencing intermittent outages from the largest cyberattack in…
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Indiana’s website taken out by DDoS in response to ‘religious freedom’ law
The state’s website was up and down for most of the early afternoon on Friday The state of Indiana is having a bad week. First, Governor Mike Pence…
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GitHub Still Battling DDoS Attack
San Francisco-based GitHub was taken out with a denial of service attack Wednesday. Scripts from the Beijing-based Baidu sent traffic coming to a page operated by GreatFire and…
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GitHub jammed by injected JavaScript, servers whacked by DDoS
Users unwittingly add to chronic traffic congestion GitHub’s servers are being hammered by web traffic from an army of unwitting cyber-foot-soldiers.…