China accused of cyberattack against South Korea
South Korean officials claim that a recent cyber-attack on their banking institutions and broadcasters are traced from an Internet address in China. According to Park Jae-Moon of the Korean...
View ArticleReddit was taken down. DDoS attacks to blame.
Jason Harvey, system administrator for Reddit, has released some information about the DDoS attack to relieve any anxiety or curiosity that their community might have over the incident. The attack...
View ArticleBritish Banks might be the next target for DDoS
We have learned that the DDoS attackers have turned their attention to include banks Europe and the UK. Banks in the US have been attacked since early this year and the evidence is that the attention...
View ArticleMT. Gox issues with DDoS Attacks
The world’s largest exchange of the internet currency Bitcoin has become the latest target of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks which have previously affected some of the world’s largest...
View ArticleDutch Police arrest suspect in Spamhaus web attacks
Authorities in Barcelona have arrested a 35-year-old man regarding the notorious Distributed Denial of Service attacks against the anti-spam website, Spamhaus. The high-profile DDoS attacks which took...
View ArticleIs “DDoS for hire” legal?
Ragebooter has become a hot topic of internet debate in recent times. The speculation has been fuelled in no small part by the intriguing, not to say eccentric behaviour of its founder, Justin Poland....
View ArticleDDoS cause DNS hosting problems
A number of domain name management and DNS hosting service providers have had their servers obstructed by a series of possibly related distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. The attacks, which...
View ArticleBitcoin fight DDoS back
The Bitcoin network fell victim to a DDoS (denial of service) attack last week forcing the core development team to patch the core reference design. Details remain unclear however, core developer, Jeff...
View ArticleBanks face further security risks
Banks are being warned to significantly increase their security measures after further DDoS attacks to their servers were discovered this month. As of yet, there has been no conformation of a theory as...
View ArticleCyber attacks more dangerous than ever
We are seeing a huge increase in the number of DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks being targeted at large organisations such as governments and banks. DDoS attacks are one of the oldest and...
View ArticleGame Servers Vulnerable to DDoS Attacks – Cube World
Cube Worlds’ launch of the anticipated Voxel-RPG game has been a tough one. Mainly because fans eagerly awaiting to get their hands on the game have not been able to buy it yet, even though the...
View ArticleDDoS visualization likened to an extreme table tennis match
With the number of reported DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks on the rise, it is likely that most people will have at least heard of this form of cyber crime. We know they target web servers...
View ArticleCyber crime to order for as little as $2 an hour
A new report commissioned by a DDoS protection service has uncovered the latest service offered online by cyber criminals: DDoS attacks to order. One particular service offers DDoS attacks lasting from...
View ArticleOver 1 in 5 UK Organisations Hit by DDoS Attacks in 2012
The Number of distributed denial-of-service attacks on UK organisations is rising according to a new report. A recent study carried out by Neustar Enterprise Services has discovered that as many as 22%...
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