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A year in infosec: Bears, botnets, breaches … and elections
History made How often can we say that an IT blunder might have changed the course of world history? Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server whilst…
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Group that attacked Tumblr threatens to DDoS Xbox for Christmas
A new hacking group is taking credit for a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that took down Tumblr this week. But so far, little is known about R.I.U. Star…
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Tumblr outage reported in US and Europe; may be result of DDoS attack
Tumblr appears to the target of a distributed denial of service attack, with users unable to access the blogging site. The outage reportedly began just before 3:30pm ET,…
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Cyber criminals compromising virtual machines in cloud to increase scale of DDoS
The recently released Microsoft’s latest Security Intelligence Report states that cyber-criminals are compromising virtual machines in the cloud as a way to vastly increase the scale of Distributed…
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Hackers hit Thai government with DDoS attacks protesting against restrictive internet law
Classified government records are believed to have been accessed by the hackers. Anonymous hackers have reportedly hit Thailand government websites with targeted DDoS attacks in retaliation for the…
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Indian Bitcoin Exchange Suffers Outage as DDoS Attacks Continue
T he onslaught of DDoS attacks targeting bitcoin websites around the world isn’t showing any signs of abating as an Indian bitcoin exchange came under attack today. Indian…
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The new age of DDoS – And we ‘joked’ that toasters would one day take down our banks
The size of DDoS attacks has increased exponentially thanks to hackers and cyber criminals making use of the IoT. A few years ago, just as the ‘Internet of…
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Battlefield 1: Are servers up after DDoS attack by The Phantom Squad?
It seems that the servers of popular first-person-shooter game Battlefield 1 have fallen victim to an attack by a hacker group which is said to have resorted to employing…
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FBI Tries to Curb Young DDoS Hackers
In coordination with Europol’s European Cyber Crime Centre (EC3), the FBI conducted a series of interviews and arrests Dec. 5-9 aimed at reducing the number of young people…