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Day 2: UK research network Janet still being slapped by DDoS attack

DNS services appear to be targeted, switching may work Members of UK’s academic community from freshers to senior academics are facing more connection issues today as a persistent and continuous DDoS attack against the academic computer network Janet continues to stretch resources.…

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Day 2: UK research network Janet still being slapped by DDoS attack

ProtonMail ‘mitigates’ DDoS attacks, says security not breached

Launch of ProtonMail 3.0 now knocked back ProtonMail has announced that it has successfully mitigated the DDoS attacks which had hobbled it since last week, while also confirming security systems had not been breached.…

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ProtonMail DDoS wipeout: Day 6. Yes, we’re still under attack

Maybe if you hadn’t paid the ransom to the wrong attackers it would be over Encrypted email provider ProtonMail is still being hit by a DDoS attack from what appears to be a nation state, as well as a secondary and separate lower-level assault from an identified assailant. However, the service is now operating normally, it seems.…

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ProtonMail DDoS wipeout: Day 6. Yes, we’re still under attack

CCTV botnets proliferate due to unchanged default factory credentials

Incapsula researchers have uncovered a botnet consisting of some 9,000 CCTV cameras located around the world, which was being used to target, among others, one of the company's clients with HTTP flood…

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CCTV botnets proliferate due to unchanged default factory credentials

Russian hacker, nabbed in Spain, cops 4+ years for Citadel botnet

Should have stayed under the skirt of Mother Russia. Just a thought Dimitry Belorossov – a Russian cyber-criminal who used the Citadel banking trojan – has been sentenced to four years and six months in a US prison after pleading guilty to conspiring to commit computer fraud.…

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Russian hacker, nabbed in Spain, cops 4+ years for Citadel botnet

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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Greater Manchester plod site targeted by nuisance DDoS attack