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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Greater Manchester plod site targeted by nuisance 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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NCA targeted by Lizard Squad in apparent DDoS revenge 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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Spooks, plod and security industry join to chase bank hacker
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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GitHub wobbles under DDOS attack
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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Polish plane IT attack? Apparently not, just a simple DDoS
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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Super Stuxnet’s SCADA slaves: security is atrocious
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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Freeparking hit by DDoS, vexed customers scream into abyss
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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Bitcoin blackmail gang start hurling DDoSes at Scandinavia
Cough up or we’ll blitz you again, scum tell hapless marks Bitcoin extortionists DD4BC have begun targeting Scandinavian companies with complex DDoS attacks.…
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DDoS attack downs University of London learning platform
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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