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NBN vaults Australia into global top-10 … DDoS attack sources

Or not, if you look at the numbers Australia has won the dubious honour of being named in the global top-10 DDoS sources, and in its quarterly State of the Internet report, Akamai reckons our tiny number of high-speed fibre broadband users are the cause.…

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Greater Manchester plod site targeted by nuisance DDoS attack

‘There will be more attacks today,’ attacker proudly tells El Reg The website for Greater Manchester Police was targeted by two Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks yesterday, which rendered the site unavailable for more than two hours. The operators of two Twitter accounts have claimed responsibility.…

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NCA arrests six Lizard Squad users after gaming firms, retailers targeted

Officers also visiting 50 addresses for a quiet word The National Crime Agency has arrested six users of a Lizard Squad DDoS attack tool, which had been used against a national newspaper, a school, gaming companies, and a number of online retailers.…

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US the world’s botnet mothership says Level 3

Not the way you want to lead the world Level 3 Communications says America is home to more botnet command and control servers, edging out the Ukraine, with Russia only managing third place.…

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US the world’s botnet mothership says Level 3