2015
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Police website target of repeated DDoS attacks
A denial of service attack on Thursday morning to the Finnish Police website was the third attack of its kind this week. The website of the Finnish Police…
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Companies under DDoS Attack Fear Losing Business Opportunities the Most
DDoS attacks are now one of the most common and affordable cyberweapons. They are used by unscrupulous competitors, sinister extortionists or just everyday cyber-vandals. More and more companies,…
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DDoS network attacks frustrate Brunswick County School officials
Officials with Brunswick County Schools and the Brunswick County Sheriff’s Office are investigating distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on the school’s network. According to officials, the attacks have been…
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The average DDoS attack tripled in volume
The average packet volume for DDoS attacks increased 340 percent to 4.36 million packets per second (Mpps), and the average bit volume swelled 245 percent to 12.1 Gbps…
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Maine, NH Websites Taken Down by Spam DDoS Attack
A spam attack temporarily took down websites for the states of Maine and New Hampshire on Monday. A hacker group claimed responsibility on Twitter for taking down maine.gov…
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Tengrinews experiences largest DDoS attack in Kazakhstan
Tengrinews news website has experienced an DDoS-attack today, a correspondent of the portal reports. “Today, starting from 9 a.m. Tengrinews.kz website was under a massive DDoS-attack (Distributed Denial…
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‘China censorship’ service GreatFire.org reports DDoS attacks, asks the Internet for help
GreatFire.org, the not-for-profit website designed to highlight online censorship relating to China’s so-called “Great Firewall,” has announced that its mirror websites — set up to circumvent blocks in…
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Oklahoma City’s Website Hit With Two DDoS Attacks
The City of Oklahoma says its website was the victim of a second denial-of-service, or DOS attack, in as many days early Wednesday morning. At 7:44 a.m. the…
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DDoS attacks losing companies business opportunities
Research said organisations fear losing contracts and ongoing business as a consequence Research by Kaspersky has revealed businesses fear losing clients as a result of DDoS attacks, although…