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Boards.ie floored by DDoS assault
Irish forum goes away with the fairies for a while Productivity in the Emerald Isle may have peaked on Tuesday with an outage of popular forum boards.ie coming…
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DDoS Attack Hits Kickass Torrents, DNS Servers Crippled
Site goes down for most of the day on January 16 Kickass Torrents, the Internet’s biggest torrent portal has suffered downtime yesterday after an unknown attacker has pummeled…
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Author of MegalodonHTTP DDoS Malware Arrested in Norway
Hacker was arrested one month ago in Europol operation Norway’s law enforcement authorities have identified a previously arrested suspect as the author of the MegalodonHTTP malware, used for…
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DDoS Defense: Better Traction in Tandem?
DDoS attacks are nothing new, but they remain the nemesis of many IT departments in organizations big and small. Why? Because attacks can come from any source, use…
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Nissan Takes Down Website on Its Own After Anonymous DDoS Attacks
Nissan has taken down two of its websites after members of the Anonymous hacker collective launched DDoS attacks against the company to protest against Japan’s whale-hunting operations. Anonymous…
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A DDoS Learning Curve for Universities, Government & Enterprises
Distributed Denial of Service attacks are easy, cheap and too often, effective. But they’re not unstoppable. There’s no getting around it — DDoS attacks are growing in frequency,…
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DDoS extortion gang suspect arrested
One suspect has been arrested and a second detained after a Europol-led raid on a gang suspected of carrying out cyber-attacks and demanding ransoms.
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Cybercops cuff two in hunt for DDoS extortion masterminds
Zombie master suspects tracked to Bosnia An international police investigation against the DD4BC DDoS extortion gang has led to one suspect being arrested and one detained, Europol said…