Anonymous is mostly known for their real-life and online protests, DDoS attacks, and shaming of businesses and government organizations by publicly releasing confidential data stolen from their server…
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Anonymous hacks police forum, sends emails to police officers
Prolexic has released a DDoS downtime cost calculator (registration required) which takes into consideration the many DDoS attack variables that can affect revenue. Using this calculator, businesse…
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Online DDoS downtime calculator
Following the settling of the Nitol botnet lawsuit earlier this month, Microsoft has announced on Friday that it has reached a settlement with Russian software programmer Andrey N. Sabelnikov, who was…
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Microsoft concludes Russian programmer didn't operate Kelihos botnet
Corero Network Security announced its First Line of Defense solution, which blocks L3-L7 DDoS and advanced targeted server attacks. Cyber criminals/terrorists have reached a level of complexity tha…
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Protection against DDoS and targeted attacks
Prolexic Technologies warned of an escalating threat from unusually large and highly sophisticated DDoS attacks. The DDoS attacks have been launched in the last week using the so-called itsoknopr…
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DDoS attacks reach new level of sophistication
Over the years, botnet owners have tried out different tactics for keeping their C&C servers online, in contact with the zombie computers, and hidden from researchers and law enforcement agencies, …
Joshua Schichtel was sentenced to 30 months in prison for selling command-and-control access to and use of thousands of malware-infected computers. In addition to his prison term, Schichtel was ordere…
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Arizona man goes to prison for selling access to botnets
Denial of service (DoS) and distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are increasingly common phenomena, used by a variety of actors—from activists to governments—to temporarily or indefinitely pre…
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DDoS attacks protection advice from the EFF
Prolexic Technologies exposed weaknesses in the command and control (C&C) architecture of the Dirt Jumper DDoS Toolkit family that could neutralize would-be attackers. The Dirt Jumper family of toolki…
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Critical vulnerabilities in popular DDoS toolkit exposed
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