But no Daily Stormer please Cloudflare made its name proxying traffic for web servers, on network ports 80 (HTTP) and 443 (HTTPS), as a defense against denial of service attacks and their ilk.…
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Cloudflare promises to tend not two, but 65,535 ports in a storm
I told you I was sick Cisco’s Talos security limb has warned that specialist medical hardware has remote code execution and denial of service bugs.…
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Brain monitor had remote code execution and DoS flaw
Electronics tutor’s taunts come back to haunt him An electronics technician pleaded guilty on Wednesday to orchestrating distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on a former employer and other organizations – and to unlawfully possessing a firearm as a former felon.…
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Sad-sack Anon calling himself ‘Mr Cunnilingus’ online is busted for DDoSing ex-bosses
Jha rule-breaker and pals confess IoT gadget hack crimes, now facing the slammer A former New Jersey college student has copped to helping create and run the massive Mirai DDoS botnet.…
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OK, OK, MIRA-I DID IT: Botnet-building compsci kid comes clean
It could be you* The UK National Lottery has apologised for a website outage that left money in their pockets of punters unable to play games on Saturday evening.…
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UK lotto players quids in: Website knocked offline by DDoS attack
I don’t know which is worse An IoT botnet is making a nuisance of itself online after becoming a conduit for spam distribution.…
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IoT botnet Linux.ProxyM turns its grubby claws to spam rather than DDoS
The Play Store is looking buggier than ever A coalition of tech firms has taken down the WireX botnet, a malware network run predominantly off Android phones running subverted apps.…
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Tech firms take down WireX Android botnet
Is it the alt-right or anti-fascists? Most likely the latter Web hosting biz DreamHost has been largely crippled today by a distributed denial of service attack, bringing down most of its services.…
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DreamHost smashed in DDoS attack: Who’s to blame? Take a guess…
After first wave attacks ended, thing-herders took aim at PlayStation, XBOX and Valve The Mirai botnet that took down large chunks of the Internet in 2016 was notable for hosing targets like Krebs on Security and domain host Dyn, but research presented at a security conference last week suggests a bunch of high-profile game networks were also targeted.…
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Mirai copycats fired the IoT-cannon at game hosts, researchers find
Malware used to take down Linux Foundation and make millions A Russian man has been imprisoned for 46 months after admitting to using the Ebury malware to create a massive botnet for fun and profit.…
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Russian admits being Ebury botnet herder, now jailed for 46 months