Great Firewall of Thailand? ?????????????????, say locals Thai government websites dropped offline this week in what was either a politically motivated distributed denial-of-service attack or a case of badly designed websites falling over in response to an unusual increase in visitor numbers.…
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Hand-cranked ‘DDoS’ floors Thai government website amid protests
Enormous network of hijacked zombie servers threatens to batter everything in its path Cybercrooks have built a network of compromised Linux servers capable of blowing websites and other systems off the internet with at least 150Gbps of junk traffic.…
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Linux-powered botnet lets rip on victims with 180Gbps network floods
CloudFlare has turned up an unusual form of denial-of-service attack: mobile advertisements that are pumping out around 275,000 HTTP requests per second.…
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Mobile advertising DDoS JavaScript drip serves site with 4.5 billion hits
Once-theoretical attack vector appears fully-formed on CloudFlare’s doorstep CloudFlare has turned up an unusual form of denial-of-service attack: mobile advertisements that are pumping out around 275,000 HTTP requests per second.…
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Mobile advertising DDoS JavaScript drip serves site with 4.5bn hits
‘I will do 19 years’ attacker says in garbled English – perhaps accidentally right A teenager from Brazil has claimed responsibility for a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on Essex Police’s website, following a similar attack on another force earlier this week.…
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Bored Brazilian skiddie claims DDoS against Essex Police
Outage domino effect as network’s customers’ customers also hit Web hosting provider Servint has been hit by a network outage, reportedly due to a DDoS attack.…
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Web hosting biz Servint hit by network-toppling DDoS attack
‘There will be more attacks today,’ attacker proudly tells El Reg The website for Greater Manchester Police was targeted by two Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks yesterday, which rendered the site unavailable for more than two hours. The operators of two Twitter accounts have claimed responsibility.…
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Greater Manchester plod site targeted by nuisance DDoS attack
There’s no skill in this, agency sneers The National Crime Agency’s website has been hit by a DDoS attack, in an apparent act of revenge for the body’s recent crackdown on users of Lizard Squad.…
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NCA targeted by Lizard Squad in apparent DDoS revenge attack
Officers also visiting 50 addresses for a quiet word The National Crime Agency has arrested six users of a Lizard Squad DDoS attack tool, which had been used against a national newspaper, a school, gaming companies, and a number of online retailers.…
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NCA arrests six Lizard Squad users after gaming firms, retailers targetted
Officers also visiting 50 addresses for a quiet word The National Crime Agency has arrested six users of a Lizard Squad DDoS attack tool, which had been used against a national newspaper, a school, gaming companies, and a number of online retailers.…
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NCA arrests six Lizard Squad users after gaming firms, retailers targeted