There is a lot of media hype surrounding volumetric style DDoS attacks recently where the focus has been on large Gb/sec attacks, sometimes up to 400 Gb/sec. In reality, these are very rare and these …
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DDoS attacks: Criminals get stealthier
Two arrested for attacks on Indonesian and Australian websites The Australian Federal Police (AFP) claim to have arrested two chaps who conducted defacement and denial of service attacks on Indonesian and Australian government websites while using the name and iconography of Anonymous.…
Here's an overview of some of last week's most interesting news, reviews and articles: XSS bug in popular Chinese site exploited to launch DDoS attack DDoS mitigation firm Incapsula has put a st…
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Week in review: IE 0-day patched, Windows XP gets unexpected update, and tips on how to learn information security
DNS-based DDoS amplification attacks have significantly increased in the recent months, targeting vulnerable home routers worldwide. A simple attack can create 10s of Gbps of traffic to disrupt provid…
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24 million routers expose ISPs to DNS-based DDoS attacks
Well, it’s statistically reasonably likely. Just update to 3.8.1, OK? Tens of thousands of vulnerable WordPress sites have been co-opted into a server-based botnet being used to run DDoS attacks.…
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MUM’s WordPress recipe blog USED AS ZOMBIE in DDoS attacks
Bet you’re shocked to hear that, aren’t you? The Tor anonymisation network is being used to hide 900 botnet and cybercrime-related hidden services, according to Kaspersky Lab.…
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Botnet masters using Tor to hide control tools for ZOMBIE SLAVES
Prolexic Technologies shared an analysis of nearly a dozen global DDoS attacks that indicates cyber attackers are using DDoS attacks in an attempt to influence market values and interfere with exchang…
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DDoS attacks used to influence stock prices
When Project Tor director Roger Dingledine recently drew the public's attention to the unusual and considerable rise in the number of Tor users, he invited people to speculate and share plausible expl…
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Massive spike of Tor users caused by Mevade botnet
Denial of Service (DoS) attacks continue to be on the rise, which is no surprise given our ever-growing dependency on Web-based services, coupled with the fact that these attacks are relatively cheap …
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Understanding and defending against Denial of Service attacks
Next: The hunt for evil botnet overlord ‘Aquabox’ The ZeuS-derived Citadel botnet, which rose to public prominence last year, is being progressively disabled by Microsoft and the FBI is on the hunt for its masters.…
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