Young ‘uns hire tools to hit infrastructure, info systems Law enforcement bods at Europol have arrested 34 users of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) cyber-attack tools and interviewed and cautioned 101 suspects in a global crackdown.…
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DDoS script kiddies are also… actual kiddies, Europol arrests reveal
Apply best routing practices liberally. Repeat each morning Solve the DDoS problem? No problem. We’ll just get ISPs to rewrite the internet. In this interview Ian Levy, technical director of GCHQ’s National Cyber Security Centre, says it’s up to ISPs to rewrite internet standards and stamp out DDoS attacks coming from the UK. In particular, they should change the Border Gateway Protocol, which lies at the heart of the routing system, he suggests.…
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Can ISPs step up and solve the DDoS problem?
DDoS attacks on the horizon as White House cybersecurity report issues recommendations CloudFlare has warned of another massive botnet that appears to be ramping up and targeting the US West Coast.…
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CloudFlare warns of another massive botnet, er, flaring up
It’s just a ‘temporary inconvenience’, says agency The public-facing website for the UK’s National Crime Agency has wobbled today under a Distributed Denial of Service Attack.…
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UK’s ‘FBI’ hit by DDoS barrage
Revamped version speeds junk mail attacks A revamped version of the Torte botnet malware is turning insecure CMS servers into spam-spewing zombies.…
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SpamTorte botnet gets turbo-charged
Yet firm refuses to say the word DDoS. What are they hiding? Outage-hit security firm Barracuda appears to have been struck down by a DDoS – though the firm says it’s still investigating and refuses to confirm or deny it.…
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Barracuda: Outage caused by ‘large number of inbound connections’
Life’s a lottery, even with Darktrace supporting your online services… William Hill is currently on the receiving end of a Distributed Denial of Service attack.…
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William Hill website under siege from DDoS attacks
IT admins are having a hell of an evening? You can bet on it! Well, on another website William Hill is currently on the receiving end of a Distributed Denial of Service attack.…
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Bookmakers William Hill under siege from DDoS internet flood
Even hackers are worried about the Internet of S**t backlash The success of the Mirai botnet was apparently a shiver looking for a spine to run up: HackForums has killed off its “server stress test” DDoS-for-hire section.…
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Post-Mirai, HackForums kills off white hat DDoS rental service
And break every computer crime law along the way A GitHub user going by Leo Linsky has forked a repo created by researcher Jerry Gamblin to create an anti-worm “nematode” that could help to patch vulnerable devices used in the massive Mirai distributed denial of service attack.…
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Boffin’s anti-worm bot could silence epic Mirai DDoS attack army