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DDoS extortion-themed scam circulating
Symantec has intercepted a scam attempt, relying on scare tactics in order to trick domain owners into transferring virtual money, or face a distributed denial of service attack against their web...
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Study finds the average price for renting a botnet
Based on an experiment conducted by researchers from VeriSign’s iDefense Intelligence Operations Team, involving 25 different "rent a botnet" underground marketplace propositions, they were able...
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Twitter, Facebook attack targeted one user
A Georgian blogger with accounts on Twitter, Facebook, LiveJournal and Google's Blogger and YouTube was targeted in a denial of service attack that led to the site-wide outage at Twitter and...
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BBC team buys a botnet, DDoSes security company Prevx
Update: BBC Click's tweet states that they took legal advice following comments on the potential violation of U.K's Computer Misuse Act. There's a slight chance that you may have unknowingly...
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Crimeware tracking service hit by a DDoS attack
A week after a newly launched crimeware tracking service went public, cybercriminals didn't hesitate to prove its usefulness by launching a distributed denial of service attack (DDoS) against it....
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GoDaddy hit by a DDoS attack
Domain name registrar and web hosting provider GoDaddy.com, was hit by a DDoS attack on Wednesday affecting thousands of its shared hosting customers for several hours. GoDaddy's Communications...
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AlertPay hit by a large scale DDoS attack
Timing is everything. Millions of account holders at privately owned online payment gateway AlertPay.com weren't able to do business through the service yesterday, due to the fact that AlertPay...
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Anti fraud site hit by a DDoS attack
The popular British anti-fraud site Bobbear.co.uk is currently under a DDoS attack (distributed denial of service attack) , originally launched last Wednesday, and is continuing to hit the site...
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Net bombarded by heaviest ever attacks this year
Online networks suffered their heaviest brute force attacks to date this year, with more sites than ever coming under sustained assault.
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BBC hit by a DDoS attack
The British Broadcasting Corporation (bbc.co.uk) was hit by a DDoS attack on Thursday, according to a statement sent to the Inquirer : "In a statement to the INQ, the BBC said the attack...
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Norwegian BitTorrent tracker under DDoS attack
Norway's largest BitTorrent tracker Norbits (norbits.net) with approximately 10,000 users, is currently under a DDoS attack launched from a group known as MORRADi, which is also speculating that...
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Coordinated Russia vs Georgia cyber attack in progress
In the wake of the Russian-Georgian conflict, a week worth of speculations around Russian Internet forums have finally materialized into a coordinated cyber attack against Georgia's Internet...
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Georgia President's web site under DDoS attack from Russian hackers
From Russia with (political) love? It appears so according to a deeper analysis of the command and control servers used by the attackers. During the weekend, Georgia President's web site was under...
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A security company wants you to DDoS its servers
"There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary" - Brendan Behan. Ypigsfly, a company describing itself as a group of seasoned veterans of the Internet network infrastructure...
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A U.S military botnet in the works
Make botnets, not war? In April, last year, I asked the question "Why establish an offensive cyber warfare doctrine when you can simple install a type of Lycos Spam Fighting screensaver on every...
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Don’t believe the hype - it's not a cyber-war
Tthe media is a naive and unwitting hand puppet for groups like Anonymous,
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DDoS Attacks: Size doesn't matter
A small DDOS attack can smash your Web site like a bug just as easily as a big one.
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Weekend Anonymous attacks bring down major websites
CBS, Universal Music, and Vivendi, among others, were brought down by Anonymous DDoS attacks over the weekend. Is Facebook next?
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How Anonymous took down the DoJ, RIAA, MPAA and Universal Music Websites
Anonymous, the Internet-based hacker and protest group, did it with a distributed denial of service attack, here's how they did it.
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Overlapping criminal and state threats pose growing cyber security threat to global Internet commerce, says Open Group speaker
I've met really good cyber investigators for the Secret Service and the FBI, but I’ve yet to meet one that thinks he's going to get promoted for calling a press conference and announcing that...
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