2017
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World of Warcraft, Overwatch, Hearthstone and other games hit by DDoS
Games company Blizzard has reported on Twitter that: “We are currently monitoring a DDOS attack against network providers which is affecting latency/connections to our games.” World of Warcraft,…
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Kids these days: the 16-year-old behind 1.7 million DDoS attacks
Teenagers have typically not been known as the most motivated demographic, napping through classes and slouching through shifts at McDonald’s. While yelling at a 16-year-old four times just…
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Libertarian Site Suffers DDoS Attack After Supporting Google Worker
Quillette Magazine, a small but respected libertarian publication based in Australia, suffered a DDoS attack Tuesday after publishing an article supportive of James Damore, the fired Google memo…
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Ukrainian Postal Service Knocked Offline By Repeated DDoS
Ukrposhta, the national postal service in Ukraine, was hit with a two-day DDoS attack that began on Monday, knocking some systems offline. According to the Interfax news agency,…
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The IoT Botnet Wars: How to Harden Linux Devices from DoS Attacks
While fighting botnets like Mirai and BrickerBot with another botnet, Hajime, may help prevent denial-of-service attacks on the IoT, the best defense is a basic system security-hardening plan.…
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Former FCC security employee destroys agency’s claims of DDoS Attacks Following John Oliver Net Neutrality Segments
Bombshell story from Gizmodo underscores need for FCC to address serious issues with its public comment process before making any decision on net neutrality. 15,000+ people call on…
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Second Quarter Reported DDoS Attacks Lasting Days, Not Minutes
What would you do if your company was hit with a DDoS attack that lasted 11 days? Perhaps a large organization could withstand that kind of outage, but…
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Journalist Sues FCC For Hiding Details About Its Alleged, Phantom DDoS Attack
You might recall that when John Oliver did his latest piece on net neutrality, the FCC’s comment system ground to a halt under the load of viewers pissed…
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Russian admits being Ebury botnet herder, now jailed for 46 months
Malware used to take down Linux Foundation and make millions A Russian man has been imprisoned for 46 months after admitting to using the Ebury malware to create…
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Chinese Telecom DDoS Attack Breaks Record
A distributed denial of service siege spanning more than 11 days broke a DDoS record for the year, according to a report from Kaspersky Lab. DDoS attackers launched…