2015
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ProtonMail restores services after epic DDoS attacks
After several days of intense work, Switzerland-based end-to-end encrypted e-mail provider ProtonMail has largely mitigated the DDoS attacks that made it unavailable for hours on end in the…
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ProtonMail pays ransom to end web tsunami – still gets washed offline
Untrustworthy criminals … who’d have thought? After a crushing distributed denial of service attack against its servers and ISPs, secure email service ProtonMail says it has paid the…
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Crypto e-mail provider ProtonMail pays ransom to stop DDoS attack, attack continues
Switzerland-based end-to-end encrypted e-mail provider ProtonMail has been on the receiving end of a heavy DDoS attack since Tuesday, November 3, and unavailable to its users for hours…
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ProtonMail still under attack by DDoS bombardment
Using blog site and Twitter to issue updates Secure webmail outfit ProtonMail is still fighting against a sustained DDoS attack that has left its service largely unavailable since…
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A server was DDoS-ed for 320 hours straight
Kaspersky Lab has released a new report on the evolution of distributed denial of service (DDoS) and it shows some interesting figures, including the fact that a server…
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Researchers map out hard-to-kill, multi-layered spam botnet
A dropper component sent to the Akamai researchers led them to the discovery of a spamming botnet that consists of at least 83,000 compromised systems. The botnet is…
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IPv6 And The Growing DDoS Danger
IPv6 and the Internet of Things have arrived — and with them an enormous potential expansion for distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. The number of connected devices is growing…