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Wisconsin man sentenced for DDoS attack against Koch Industries

A Wisconsin man has been sentenced to two years federal probation and ordered to pay restitution for taking part in a 2011 DDoS attack mounted against the official website of Koch Industries by the An…

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$1M lost in attack against Bitcoin Internet Payment Services

Copenhagen-based Bitcoin Internet Payment Services (BIPS) has been hit with a DDoS attack and has had 1,295 BTC stolen (a little over $1M) mostly from the company’s own holdings, but some from their c…

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$1M lost in attack against Bitcoin Internet Payment Services

What e-commerce companies think about DDoS protection

Prolexic announced the results of a survey of global e-commerce companies who were asked about DDoS protection and the effectiveness of different types of DDoS mitigation services. A cross-sectio…

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Tracking botnets using automatically generated domains

Stefano Zanero is an Assistant Professor at Politechnico di Milano, where he focuses on systems security. Modern botnets rely on domain-generation algorithms (DGAs) to build resilient command-and-c…

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Visual investigations of botnet command and control behavior

One of the classic debates in computer science concerns whether artificial intelligence or virtual reality is the more worthwhile pursuit. The advocates of artificial intelligence argue that computers…

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Visual investigations of botnet command and control behavior

IBM unveils new cloud solution

IBM announced a new cloud solution that combines software analytics and cloud security services to fend off web-based DDoS attacks for organizations doing business on the web and in the cloud. The new…

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Attackers use smaller botnets to launch high-bandwidth attacks

DDoS perpetrators changed tactics in Q3 2013 to boost attack sizes and hide their identities, according to Prolexic. “This quarter, the major concern is that reflection attacks are accelerating d…

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