2016
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Mike McNeill’s Diary for Monday, July 11, 2016: Fighting off the DDoS
magnoliareporter.com experienced some technical issues on Friday. Our website is hosted by a service known as TownNews.com , which hosts and provides technical assistance to thousands of media-oriented websites across the country. TownNews.com was hit…
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Ransomware: Can we finally start learning from past mistakes?
There is a phrase I am finding quite relevant lately. It is attributed to the philosopher George Santayana and it goes like this: “Those who cannot remember the…
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DDoS extortion campaigns increasingly target businesses
80 percent of European IT security professionals expect their business to be threatened with a DDoS ransom attack during the next 12 months, according to Corero Network Security.…
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WikiLeaks’ website was taken offline with a DDoS attack amid an ongoing hacker feud.
As a long-time feud between rival hacking groups boiled over, the WikiLeaks website was caught in the crossfire and brought offline by a distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on 5…
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IoT Devices Are Being Hacked By Lizard Squad To Execute DDoS Attacks
People who have been following the tech news may recall the name Lizard Squad. This hacker collective has been a major pain in the neck for computer users…
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Hydra hacker bot spawns internet of things DDoS clones
LizardStresser makes a messer of Brazil banks, gamer outfits Lizard Squad may be mostly behind bars, but their LizardStresser botnet has spawned more than 100 clones.…
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Chinese Gambling Company Was Target of a Nine-Vector 470 Gbps DDoS Attack
The attack also reached 110 million packets per second On June 14, a Chinese gambling company was unlucky enough to be at the end of a complex multi-vector…