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
War on Guardians of Peace? Sony Pictures is alleged to have conducted a retaliatory DDoS attack against websites currently holding its leaked information for public download, according to a media report.…
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Sony Pictures hit by ‘fightback on filesharers’ DDoS claims – report
Dump docs on users’ disks using only ASCII art (°O°) Cisco researchers have reported a trio of vulnerabilities in popular instant messaging client Pidgin that allow for denial of service by way of emoticon abuse and remote arbitrary file creation.…
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Emoticons blast three security holes in Pidgin 🙁
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
First denial, then anger, then DDoS , then patching. A tool that’s popular with Microsoft’s in-house developers, the RadEditor HTML editor, contains a dangerous cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability, researcher GS McNamara says.…
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Researcher details nasty XSS flaw in popular web editor
First time the cache network has seen drop in use of 32-bit-wide IP addresses Broadband and IPv6 are hot – and distributed denial-of-service attacks and IPv4 are not. Well, that’s according to Akamai.…
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PEAK IPV4? Global IPv6 traffic is growing, DDoS dying, says Akamai
Anti-Facebook site forced to temporarily wave Buh-Bye Ello, the social network site intended to serve as something of an antidote to ad-stuffed Facebook, was hit by a suspected Distributed-Denial-of-Service attack today.…
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Ello social network hit by suspected BLOODY DDoS attack
Gets back up again after half an hour though Ello, the social network site intended to serve as something of an antidote to ad-stuffed Facebook, was hit by a suspected Distributed-Denial-of-Service attack today.…
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Ello? ello? ello?: Facebook challenger in DDoS KNOCKOUT