2015
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Rutgers Students Want Refunds After Fifth DDoS Attack in One Year
Over 1,000 People Have Signed Change.org Petition Following September Cyberattack Rutgers students are frustrated with the university’s lackluster cybersecurity, considering the school raised tuition in part to fund…
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Poker Players Behind DDoS Attacks?
Have you ever wondered who exactly is responsible for the rash of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks being aimed at online poker sites ? Such attacks have…
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DDoS defences spiked by CloudPiercer tool – paper
70% of sites trying to hide true IP address cough their secrets The real IP addresses of some 70 per cent of websites protected by popular distributed denial…
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Five detained in KPN, Ziggo DDoS cyberattack
Four underage boys and one man were arrested for cyberattacks on the internet service providers Ziggo and KPN. The five were interrogated by the police department’s High Tech…
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Gamers DDoS Thai government sites to protest “Great Firewall of Thailand”
Gamers and privacy campaigners in Thailand have claimed responsibility for the recent take down of several government websites in a coordinated DDoS attack last week. The attacks were in…
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Attackers prefer lower-bandwidth DDoS attacks
Analyzing customer data, Corero found that attackers are continuing to leverage sub-saturating DDoS attacks with increasing frequency, using shorter attack durations to evade legacy cloud DDoS scrubbi…
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Businesses Beware – DDoS Attacks Are On The Rise Again Read
British businesses are being warned to bump up their protection against Direct Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks after a new study found that the number of such assaults…
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Early warning helped five Russian banks ward off DDoS attacks
Five Russian banks that experienced a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack Sept. 26 believed to have been aimed at starting a bitcoin-related panic had been warned in…