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Number of DDoS attacks down but speed and size increases
The number of DDoS attacks fell more than 40 percent to 97,700 attacks in the second quarter of 2016 according to the latest threat report from DDoS security…
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Post-Mirai, HackForums kills off white hat DDoS rental service
Even hackers are worried about the Internet of S**t backlash The success of the Mirai botnet was apparently a shiver looking for a spine to run up: HackForums…
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The Dyn DDOS Attack And The Changing Balance Of Online Cyber Power
As the denial of service (DDOS) attack against Dyn shook the internet a little over a week ago, it brought to the public forefront the changing dynamics of…
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Melbourne Cup is ‘top op for hacked camera DDoS extortionists’
Bet shops ready for old layer 3 stayers, less for IoT swoopers, says Akamai “The race that stops a nation” could also stop betting agencies if the regular…
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Building the IoT monster
When Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein, she imagined the misguided doctor assembling his creature from dead body parts, who instead of elevating science, created something dark and terrible. A…
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Boffin’s anti-worm bot could silence epic Mirai DDoS attack army
And break every computer crime law along the way A GitHub user going by Leo Linsky has forked a repo created by researcher Jerry Gamblin to create an…
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Ontario literacy test abandoned due to DDoS attack
There’s no shortage of conspiracy theories when it comes to guessing who’s behind cyber attacks. So when it was announced that a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack…