Last week HSBC’s online banking website was taken down by a DDoS attack, leaving thousands of customers unable to access its services. Here are some of the comments Help Net Security received. …
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HSBC online services still offline following ‘attack’ on bank
Oh no – not again! Updated HSBC customers were once again locked out of online banking this morning, following an apparent DDoS attack on the bank.…
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HSBC online services still offline following ‘attack’ on bank
Larger, more complex, financially motivated DDoS attacks on the rise
DDoS attacks are becoming increasingly larger, more complex, and perpetrated by cyber extortionist instead of hacktivists and vandals, the results of Arbor Networks' 11th Annual Worldwide Infrastructu…
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Larger, more complex, financially motivated DDoS attacks on the rise
500Gbps DDoS attack flattens world record
Booter blasters belt businesses. The world’s largest distributed denial of service attack has been clocked at 500Gbps, according to Arbor Networks.…
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500Gbps DDoS attack flattens world record
Irish government websites hit by widening DDoS attacks
First they came for the forums. Then the lottery. Now… A number of Irish government-related and public sector websites were knocked offline by an apparent DDoS attack on Friday morning.…
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Irish government websites hit by widening DDoS attacks
Ad-clicking bots predicted to rip US$7.2 billion from Mad Men
Could it be bots that fall for for those ‘One Weird Trick’ ads? Here’s hoping! Botnets will inflict a massive US$7.2 billion in damages against online advertisers this year according to research by ad security company White Ops.…
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Ad-clicking bots predicted to rip US$7.2 billion from Mad Men
Boards.ie floored by DDoS assault
Irish forum goes away with the fairies for a while Productivity in the Emerald Isle may have peaked on Tuesday with an outage of popular forum boards.ie coming on top of Twitter’s TITSUP moment.…
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Boards.ie floored by DDoS assault
Microsoft asks: We’ve taken down botnets for you. How about a kill switch?
It’s like pulling a smoking car off the road… Oh, hang on Last December, Microsoft intercepted traffic on users’ PCs and helped break up a botnet. And nobody complained. So the company very tentatively asked at a session on ethics and policy in Brussels this week whether it should do more.…
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Microsoft asks: We’ve taken down botnets for you. How about a kill switch?
Cybercops cuff two in hunt for DDoS extortion masterminds
Zombie master suspects tracked to Bosnia An international police investigation against the DD4BC DDoS extortion gang has led to one suspect being arrested and one detained, Europol said on Tuesday.…
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Cybercops cuff two in hunt for DDoS extortion masterminds
Under-attack Linode resets passwords after logins leak onto web
DDoS’d virtual server host’s hell continues Linode’s woes continue: the server hosting biz has just run a system-wide password reset on customer accounts after two Linode.com user credentials were discovered “on an external machine.”…
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Under-attack Linode resets passwords after logins leak onto web