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Barracuda: Outage caused by ‘large number of inbound connections’

Yet firm refuses to say the word DDoS. What are they hiding? Outage-hit security firm Barracuda appears to have been struck down by a DDoS – though the firm says it’s still investigating and refuses to confirm or deny it.…

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Barracuda: Outage caused by ‘large number of inbound connections’

Security man Krebs’ website DDoS was powered by hacked Internet of Things botnet

Internet of Amazingly Insecure Tat? That’s the one The huge distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack which wiped security journalist Brian Krebs’ website from the internet came from a million-device-strong Internet of Things botnet.…

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Security man Krebs’ website DDoS was powered by hacked Internet of Things botnet