2016
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Minnesota Courts Website Target Of DDoS Attacks
A week after the Minnesota courts website was completely shut down for 10 days in December, we’re finally finding out why. The Minnesota Judicial Branch says its website…
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DDoS attack on BBC may have been biggest in history
Last week’s distributed denial of service attack against the BBC website may have been the largest in history. A group calling itself New World Hacking said that the…
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Linode Resets Customer Passwords After Breach, DDoS Attack
Cloud-based webhost Linode absorbed another body blow on Tuesday when it said it was resetting customer passwords after a suspected breach. The development compounded the company’s existing woes…
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Linode forces password reset for all users due to suspected breach
New Jersey-based virtual private server provider Linode can't seem to catch a break. After being repeatedly hit with DDoS attacks from December 24 to early January, the company…
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Bitcoin exchange BTCC stands firm against DDoS ransom hacker and wins
Bitcoin exchange BTCC Technology Ltd. had an interesting time over the new year when it was targeted by a Bitcoin-for-DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack, but in a…
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Under-attack Linode resets passwords after logins leak onto web
DDoS’d virtual server host’s hell continues Linode’s woes continue: the server hosting biz has just run a system-wide password reset on customer accounts after two Linode.com user credentials…
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DDoS gang takes down BBC websites, Donald Trump’s campaign site over holiday weekend
A group of computer criminals used two separate distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks to bring down all of the BBC’s websites and Donald Trump’s main campaign site over this…
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BBC Websites, DDoS attack By Anti ISIS Hacking Group For Testing Their Capabilities
Hackers against the Islamic State or ISIS have claimed that the BBC website downtime during New Year’s Eve was their DDoS attack, but with no bad intentions. BBC…