Titsup gaming service struggling to return to life Sony’s PlayStation network is slowly returning to normal service roughly 48 hours after it was hit by another major denial-of-service attack on Christmas Day.…
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PlayStation clambers back online 48 hours after DDoS attack CRIPPLED network
Titsup gaming service struggling to return to life Sony’s PlayStation network is slowly returning to normal service roughly 48 hours after it was hit by another major distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on Christmas Day.…
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PlayStation clambers back online 48 hours after DDoS attack PARALYSED network
Crimeware-as-a-Service Crooks behind Vawtrak, a dangerous banking Trojan, are ramping up its reach and sophistication, security firms have warned.…
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Vawtrak challenges almighty ZeuS as king of the botnets
25-hour incident blocked traffic from reaching rackspace.com and some subdomains Rackspace says it has recovered from a nasty distributed denial of service attack that it says may have seen “a portion of legitimate traffic to our DNS infrastructure … inadvertently blocked.”…
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Rackspace restored after DDOS takes out DNS
Sentence will be passed in January next year A 17 year-old Londoner has pleaded guilty to a series of denial-of-service attacks against internet exchanges and the Spamhaus anti-spam service last year.…
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London teen pleads guilty to Spamhaus DDoS
Turns out the whole thing was pointless anyway Municipal websites in Fort Lauderdale, Florida suffered a distributed denial of service attack on Monday after Anonymous promised to disrupt the city’s activities following the passing of local laws outlawing the feeding of homeless people.…
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Fort Lauderdale websites DDoSed after Anonymous threats over feeding ban
Monday, bloody Monday Fasthosts’ five-hour collapse today has been blamed on a Distributed Denial of Service attack and a security flaw spotted on its Windows 2003 shared web server kit.…
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Holy cow! Fasthosts outage blamed on DDoS hack attack AND Windows 2003 vuln
‘That’s not us spamming, honest’ cries hosting firm Spammers are using loop holes in the internet routing registry to commandeer address space and pump out junk mail, and potentially launch denial of service attacks and steal traffic.…
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Dormant IP addresses RIPE for hijacking
Now we’re not saying it was the Chinese government, but… Hacking attacks against organisations promoting democracy in Hong Kong were run using the same infrastructure previously linked to Chinese cyber-espionage attacks, according to new research from security firm FireEye.…
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Pro-democracy Hong Kong sites DDoS’d with Chinese cyber-toolkit
‘But boss, the Internet Storm Centre says it’s dangerous for me to reply to you’ Yet another round of Shellshock attacks is emerging, according to the SANS Internet Storm Center – this time, botnets are tapping hosts over SMTP.…
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Shellshock over SMTP attacks mean you can now ignore your email