Hackers reveal plans to make children cry Last Christmas LizardSquad played Grinch with the holiday fun of gamers by knocking out XBox Live and smacking the PlayStation Network offline with a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack.…
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‘Phantom’ menace threatens to down Xbox Live, PSN at Xmas
Move follows 45-minute attack last Thursday Web host Moonfruit last night began putting its systems back online after taking down customers’ sites in order to upgrade defences in the face of a threatened DDoS attack, with the firm blaming a recent assault (which prompted the self-takedown) on the Armada Collective crew.…
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Web host Moonfruit defies Armada DDoS crew … by (temporarily) defeating itself
Attackers seem to be adjusting methods in response to Tweets Publicly-funded academic computer network Janet has come under a persistent DDoS attack today, which hobbled multiple internet connections, including the Manchester to Manchester Core Router.…
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UK research network Janet under ongoing and persistent DDoS attack
Maybe if you hadn’t paid the ransom to the wrong attackers it would be over Encrypted email provider ProtonMail is still being hit by a DDoS attack from what appears to be a nation state, as well as a secondary and separate lower-level assault from an identified assailant. However, the service is now operating normally, it seems.…
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ProtonMail DDoS wipeout: Day 6. Yes, we’re still under attack
Untrustworthy criminals … who’d have thought? After a crushing distributed denial of service attack against its servers and ISPs, secure email service ProtonMail says it has paid the ransom demanded by its attackers – who promptly stiffed the Swiss firm.…
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ProtonMail pays ransom to end web tsunami – still gets washed offline
Website unable to process online transactions Scandi finance house Swedbank has been hit by a DDoS attack, which has taken down access to online banking via its website.…
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Swedbank smacked by DDoS attack
Switzerland-based end-to-end encrypted e-mail provider ProtonMail has been on the receiving end of a heavy DDoS attack since Tuesday, November 3, and unavailable to its users for hours on end. Pro…
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Crypto e-mail provider ProtonMail pays ransom to stop DDoS attack, attack continues
Using blog site and Twitter to issue updates Secure webmail outfit ProtonMail is still fighting against a sustained DDoS attack that has left its service largely unavailable since Tuesday.…
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ProtonMail still under attack by DDoS bombardment
70% of sites trying to hide true IP address cough their secrets The real IP addresses of some 70 per cent of websites protected by popular distributed denial of service attack protection providers like CloudFlare, Prolexic and Incapsula can be revealed using a simple web tool built on newly uncovered flaws, according to a recent paper.…
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DDoS defences spiked by CloudPiercer tool – paper
Stallman sycophant offers password reminders and handy debug tips. Threat boffin Mario Ballano says VXers have broken into a host of routers creating a botnet dedicated solely to securing and hardening the devices.…
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Vigilante VXer FIXES SOHOpeless routers