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500Gbps DDoS attack flattens world record
Booter blasters belt businesses. The world’s largest distributed denial of service attack has been clocked at 500Gbps, according to Arbor Networks.…
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Telephonic DoS tied to Ukraine power grid takedown
More information is being revealed regarding the late December attack on the Ukrainian power grid with reports indicating the attack on the utility was supported by a simultaneous…
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Irish lottery site and ticket machines hit by DDoS attack
Ireland’s National Lottery website and ticket machines were knocked offline after a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on Wednesday. Customers trying to buy tickets for the €12m…
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Irish lottery hit by cyber attack
Ireland’s National Lottery website and ticket machines were thrown offline after a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on Wednesday.
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Irish lottery hit by DDoS attack
Ireland’s National Lottery website and ticket machines were thrown offline after a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on Wednesday.
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Data center outages increasingly caused by DDoS
While overall unplanned data center outages have decreased, those that were the result of targeted DDoS attacks have skyrocketed. Think housing your servers in a data center rather…
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Lotto ticket machines, website working after DDoS attack
The National Lottery website and ticket machines were targeted by a cyber-attack to disrupt its operations. A DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack floods the communications system with traffic…
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Ad-clicking bots predicted to rip US$7.2 billion from Mad Men
Could it be bots that fall for for those ‘One Weird Trick’ ads? Here’s hoping! Botnets will inflict a massive US$7.2 billion in damages against online advertisers this…