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Nude celeb pics wrongly blamed for DDOS at New Zealand’s largest ISP

Actual culprit appears to be silly router configurations and Euro-nasties New Zealand’s largest ISP, Spark, has spent the weekend fighting off a DDOS incorrectly assumed to have a connection with last week’s nude celebrity picture scandal.…

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Nude celeb pics wrongly blamed for DDOS at New Zealand’s largest ISP

DDoS attacks aimed at telecom systems are on the rise

DDoS attacks are usually seen as the domain of hacktivists and hackers looking to block – then blackmail – companies that are heavily dependent on their Internet presence. But, with the rise of bot…

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DDoS attacks aimed at telecom systems are on the rise

UK cops: ‘We thwarted Royal Wedding web attack plot’

Kid cuffed in DDoS probe UK cybercops have claimed credit for preventing attempts to blast the official Royal Wedding website offline in April, following the arrest of a teenager suspected of masterminding the attack.

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UK cops: ‘We thwarted Royal Wedding web attack plot’