Report in Japan says ‘150,000 hits per second’ A Japanese newspaper is reporting that during the spectacular collapse of the Mt Gox Bitcoin exchange, the operation’s servers were also suffering a large-scale DDOS attack.…
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Mt Gox fielded MASSIVE DDOS attack before collapse
Bet you’re shocked to hear that, aren’t you? The Tor anonymisation network is being used to hide 900 botnet and cybercrime-related hidden services, according to Kaspersky Lab.…
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Botnet masters using Tor to hide control tools for ZOMBIE SLAVES
Everything from DoS to device access Cisco has issued patches and mitigation instructions for 16 of its wireless products, to take care of a number of denial of service vulnerabilities and one unauthorised access vulnerability.…
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Cisco patches enterprise wireless vulns
$300 or the trendy website gets it … and the website got it Meetup.com has gone public with one of the most paltry ransom demands The Register has seen – but rather than pay up to end a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, the klatch organizer instead put up with its site being repeatedly hosed offline, we’re told.…
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Miscreant menaces Meetup, minuscule money mania mashed
Your medical files are worth big bucks to fraudsters RSA 2014 The low levels of security in healthcare IT systems, and the high value of its data, is going to make the sector the next big target for scammers, according to the Microsoft-backed team that takes down botnets.…
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Crap hospital databases next goldmine for cyber-crooks, say Microsoft’s botnet slayers
NTP flaw used again, effects minimal Once again hackers are targeting content-delivery firm Cloudfare, and the company says this latest attack is its biggest yet, peaking at over 400Gbps of traffic.…
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Europe shrugs off largest DDoS attack yet, traffic tops 400Gbps
Researcher allegedly blocked after he went public A security consultant who works for Telefonica has turned up a bug in how Snapchat handles authentication tokens, which enables a denial-of-service attack against users’ phones.…
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Snapchat bug lets hackers aim DENIAL of SERVICE attacks at YOUR MOBE
1775Sec: Um, we were trolling for, er, Aaron Swartz… Pranksters latched onto an outage at Dropbox on Friday to push false rumours of a politically motivated hack.…
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Dropbox outage was caused by ‘buggy’ upgrade: DDoS us? You hardly know us…
OK, who hates fun? Valve’s online gaming platform Steam and Electronic Arts’ Origin were hit by separate DDoS attacks over the weekend.…
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Steam and Origin gamers knocked offline by SEPARATE DDoS attacks
Polish crims demanded 50% of gambling biz, on pain of firm-killing cyber attacks A pair of cyber-extortionists who attempted to blackmail a Manchester-based online casino with threats of unleashing a debilitating denial of service attack have been jailed for five years and four months.…
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Casino DDoS duo caged for five years after blackmail buyout threat