2015
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Malaysia Airlines Website Hacked by Group Calling Itself ‘Cyber Caliphate’
Airline’s Site Attacked by Group Claiming to Be Aligned With Islamic State Malaysia Airlines had its website hacked by a group that appeared to be trying to settle…
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DDoS dilemmas: how far can you predict attacks, and what can be done?
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are back in the news; it seems that barely a month goes by without media reports of a website or service being…
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The Dirty hit by DDoS attack
The FBI is on the hunt for hackers who shutdown Nik Richie ‘s website The Dirty … and the reality star tells us he’s hemorrhaging money. The Dirty…
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French DDoS attacks spike after terror protest
The firm leveraged its Arbor Atlas initiative, which receives anonymised internet traffic and DDoS event data from 330 internet service providers (ISPs) worldwide, to view events in France…
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City of Fort Lauderdale Spends $430,000 on Cyber Security After DDoS Attack from Anonymous
After getting hacked by cyber activist group Anonymous last month for its homeless laws, the City of Fort Lauderdale beefed-up its cyber security network with a hefty $430,000…
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Lizard Squad’s DDoS website hacked, unencrypted customer database stolen
The hacker group that calls itself the “Lizard Squad” has received another serious blow: LizardStresser(dot)su, the website where customers go to rent their DDoS service powered by a…