2015
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How The Great Firewall Of China Caused A DDoS Attack In France
Many people outside China know about the country’s Great Firewall, but probably assume it will have little, if any, impact on their own online activities. However, a fascinating…
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Anonymous-linked hacker admits to DDoS of public services
Merseyside resident disrupted more than 300 sites with bogus traffic. A hacker with links to Anonymous has admitted conducting distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against social services, crime prevention bodies…
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New multi-purpose backdoor targets Linux servers
A new multi-purpose Linux Trojan that opens a backdoor on the target machine and can make it participate in DDoS attacks has been discovered and analyzed by Dr.…
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Massive DDoS Brute-Force Campaign Targets Linux Rootkits
A brute force campaign looking to set up a distributed denial of service (DDoS) botnet using a rare Linux rootkit malware has been launched, emanating from the servers…
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Home Routers and IoT Devices Set to Drive DNS DDoS Attacks
The volume of DNS-based DDoS attacks will see another sharp rise this year as increasing numbers of home routers and IoT devices are compromised, according to Nominum. The…
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Hackers ransoming encryption keys from website owners
Hackers are finding even more ways to harm website owners, in a new report from security firm High-Tech Bridge hackers are switching encryption keys and then ransoming website…
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Tidal waves of spoofed traffic: DDoS attacks
While massive retail breaches dominated headlines in 2014, with hacks involving state-sponsored threats coming in a strong second, distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks continued to increase, both in the…