2016
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What are the DoS and DDoS attacks that brought down the census?
Experts believe that the electronic assault on the census site was a DDoS attack – a kind of electronic army that attacks an enemy’s website on every flank using…
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Census 2016 site falls to DDoS attack: ABS
As widely expected, the Census web site fell over last night — but the ABS has said it was with a little help from external players. The Australian…
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Anonymous DDoS Brazilian Government Websites Because Rio Olympics
ANONYMOUS IS CONDUCTING CYBER ATTACKS ON BRAZILIAN GOVERNMENT DOMAINS AND PORTALS AGAINST RIO OLYMPICS CLAIMING THE EVENT IS AFFECTING NATIVES ON A LARGE SCALE! The online hacktivist Anonymous Brazil is targeting…
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About 170 DDoS attacks were launched on the government bodies of Ukraine in last six months.
A representative of the State Service of Special Communications and Information Protection of Ukraine told this to Secretary of the National Security and Defence Council Oleksandr Turchynov, Ukrayinska…
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If two countries waged cyber war on each another, here’s what to expect
Imagine you woke up to discover a massive cyber attack on your country. All government data has been destroyed, taking out healthcare records, birth certificates, social care records…
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Cybersecurity: Financial Institutions Fret over DDoS Attacks
Financial institutions, especially the banks, are getting more worried about the increasing rate of a new cyber attack called Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS), that has caused huge…
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Overwatch,’ ‘Warcraft’ Servers Sidelined By DDoS Attack From Hacking Group PoodleCorp
Blizzard was hit with a DDoS attack that made its servers inaccessible, disrupting gameplay for Battle.net users on Aug. 2. Someone from Blizzard’s customer support team posted on…