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
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Borg bashes destabilising DoS bug in UCS kit
No workaround, so it’s ‘patch or chuck it in the bin’ Cisco has patched a denial of service vulnerability in its unified computing platform.…
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Borg bashes destabilising DoS bug in UCS kit
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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NCA targeted by Lizard Squad in apparent DDoS revenge attack
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 targetted
NCA arrests six Lizard Squad users after gaming firms, retailers targeted
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
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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Spooks, plod and security industry join to chase bank hacker
Vegan eats BeEf, gets hooked
Bad taste still lingers Botnet slaughterer Brian Wallace has created a module to detect when attackers are using the popular browser-busting BeEF hacking framework.…
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Vegan eats BeEf, gets hooked
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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Polish plane IT attack? Apparently not, just a simple DDoS
Unable to log on to online games? Blame cheap-rate DDoSers
Laying waste to human, elf, dwarf and orc alike, all for the love of gold Running botnets-for-hire to mount DDoS attacks has become cheaper and easier than ever, according to a new research.…
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Unable to log on to online games? Blame cheap-rate DDoSers
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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Bitcoin blackmail gang start hurling DDoSes at Scandinavia