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DDoS attacks: For the hell of it or targeted – how do you see them off?

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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Meet DDoSaaS: Distributed Denial of Service-as-a-Service

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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Israeli Pentagon DDoSers explain their work, get busted by FBI

There’s not much more than fine print between stress testing and DDoS-as-a-service Two Israeli men have been arrested for running a distributed-denial-of service-as-a-service site, after one seemingly claimed to attack the Pentagon.…

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Linode fends off multiple DDOS attacks

Nowhere near as bad as its ten-day Christmas cracker, but something seems to be afoot Cloud hosting outfit Linode has again come under significant denial of service (DoS) attack.…

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Linode fends off multiple DDOS attacks

Hydra hacker bot spawns internet of things DDoS clones

LizardStresser makes a messer of Brazil banks, gamer outfits Lizard Squad may be mostly behind bars, but their LizardStresser botnet has spawned more than 100 clones.…

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Hydra hacker bot spawns internet of things DDoS clones

Botnet-powered ballot stuffing suspected in 2nd referendum petition

‘Tiny fraction of the overall count’ however A petition for a second EU referendum in the UK has been hit by suspicions of computer automated ballot stuffing, possibly by politically motivated hackers.…

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Botnet-powered ballot stuffing suspected in 2nd referendum petition

Inside the World of the Dark DDoS

This isn’t your grandma’s DDoS Today’s distributed denial of service attacks are different than the kinds that we saw at the dawn of the millennium when the threat emerged. They’re becoming more nuanced, and subtle – and they could result in a lot more than a downed web server.…

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Inside the World of the Dark DDoS

DDOS-as-a-service offered for just five dollars

Freelancer-finding site Fiverr boots out sellers, but DDOS prices are plunging everywhere Freelancer-finding site Fiverr has booted out users offering distributed denial of service attack for-hire groups for as low as US$5.…

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DDOS-as-a-service offered for just five dollars