Hacked low-powered cameras and internet-of-things things The world’s largest distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack has been clocked from the same network of 152,463 compromised low-powered cameras and internet-of-things devices which punted a media outlet off the internet.…
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152k cameras in 990Gbps record-breaking dual DDoS
600 Gbps traffic flood overwhelmed CDN Google has provided free distributed denial of service attack (DDoS) mitigation services to security publication Krebs on Security , stepping in after Akamai withdrew support.…
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Google rushes in where Akamai fears to tread, shields Krebs after world’s-worst DDoS
Bureau of Stats says spooks signed off IBM’s plan, but Big Blue mucked something up Australia’s Bureau of Statistics has heavily criticised IBM for the security it applied to the nation’s failed online census, which was taken offline after a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that battered a curiously flimsy defensive shield.…
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IBM botched geo-block designed to save Australia’s census
Cloud-based DDoS defences introduce delays Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks can be painful and debilitating. How can you defend against them? Originally, out-of-band or scrubbing-centre DDoS protection was the only show in town, but another approach, inline mitigation, provides a viable and automatic alternative.…
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DDoS attacks: For the hell of it or targeted – how do you see them off?
One killer trojanised app or $100k of hardware is enough. A research trio has shown how thousands of malware-infected phones could launch automated distributed denial of service attacks to cripple the US emergency phone system “for days”.…
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Infected Android phones could flood America’s 911 with DDoS attacks
Cracking the grey market in rent-a-borkers Analysis It’s not often an entirely new and thriving sector of the “digital economy” – one hitherto unmentioned by the popular press – floats to the surface of the lake in broad daylight, waving a tentacle at us.…
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Meet DDoSaaS: Distributed Denial of Service-as-a-Service
Someone likes fragging servers Blizzard, the game developer behind World of Warcraft and Overwatch, was hit by another DDoS attack on Tuesday.…
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Blizzard blighted by another DDoS storm
Traffic to Pirate Bay and others redirected to AirTel banned URL notice An unknown agency in India, possibly telco Airtel, is quietly capitalising on encryption gaps in sites tended by DDOS-buster CloudFlare to intercept and redirect users.…
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CloudFlare probes mystery interception of site traffic across India
Smugness levels cut among Apple fanbois Security firm Bitdefender has issued an alert about a malicious app that hands over control of Macs to criminals via Tor.…
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EasyDoc malware adds Tor backdoor to Macs for botnet control
Nine vectors used as bad guys try to beat defenders. A chinese gambling company has been pulverised with multiple nine-vector, 470 Gbps, 110 million packet-per-second distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, some of the biggest and most complex ever recorded.…
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Chinese gambling site served near record-breaking complex DDoS