Perp known as ‘DD4BC’ has some serious heat on his or her tail, with worse to come A group of security boffins have joined police and intelligence spooks in a clandestine mission to identify those behind distributed denial of service (DDoS) extortion attacks against major banks.…
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Spooks, plod and security industry join to chase bank hacker
What’s that big spike on site performance graph? GitHub is under a distributed-denial-of-service attack being perpetrated by unknown actors.…
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GitHub wobbles under DDOS attack
Six months ago we experienced a 30Gb/sec and 60M PPS attack that was targeting over 1000 IPs on our network. Although we eventually stopped the attack with the aid of our upstream providers, a number …
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A comparative view of cloud-based DDoS protection services
Turns out, it wasn’t that big of a deal after all The Register has discovered that the unspecified IT attack which left 1,400 passengers of LOT Polish Airlines stranded in Warsaw was a simple DDoS issue, which had so impeded the airline’s connection that it could not produce its flight plans in time for take offs.…
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Polish plane IT attack? Apparently not, just a simple DDoS
Not the way you want to lead the world Level 3 Communications says America is home to more botnet command and control servers, edging out the Ukraine, with Russia only managing third place.…
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US the world’s botnet mothership says Level 3
DDoS attacks are beginning to resemble advanced persistent threats, evidenced by long durations, repetition and changing attack vectors aimed at evading simple, signature-based defense systems, accord…
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DDoS attacks now resemble APTs
153 computers, six SCADA systems, most C&C points to Iran Botnet boffin Peter Kleissner says at least 153 computers are still slaves to Stuxnet.…
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Super Stuxnet’s SCADA slaves: security is atrocious
Outage-prone company does impression of whore’s drawers Email and hosting biz Freeparking has run into yet more trouble after being hit by a DDoS attack today.…
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Freeparking hit by DDoS, vexed customers scream into abyss
A harsh lesson, now stand in corridor for four hours The University of London Computer Centre fell victim to a cyber-attack on Thursday.…
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DDoS attack downs University of London learning platform
Vulnerability may allow ne’er-do-wells to access the 1990s SEC Consult Vulnerability Lab Stefan Viehbock says potentially millions of routers and internet of things devices using KCodes NetUSB could be exposed to remote hijacking or denial of service attacks.…
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‘Millions’ of routers open to absurdly outdated NetUSB hijack