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Rethink Your Storage With IBM
Data storage is an interesting thing. While it's easy to add more storage with band-aid solutions, before long, you'll need to seriously rethink how you store. For some advice, turn to this white...
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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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New Mac OS X malware with DDoS functionality spotted in the wild
Security researchers from multiple companies, have spotted a new Mac OS X malware. Dubbed 'Tsunami', the malware's primary goal is to act as platform for executing distributed denial of service...
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Russian Embassy in London hit by a DDoS attack
The Russian embassy in London was hit by a distributed denial of service attack (DDoS) over the weekend.
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Datacenter power outage and DDoS attack cripples VoIP vendor
How many cloud failures have to happen before consumers take notice?
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LulzSec saga: Cleary charged with hacking offenses
The 19-year-old arrested on Tuesday by London police has been formally charged with launching denial of services attacks.
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Two DDoS attacks hit Network Solutions
Network Solutions is reporting on two consecutive DDoS attacks which hit the company's networks.
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Suspected LulzSec player arrested, in custody in London
19-year-old suspected LulzSec mastermind has been arrested. Will this spell the end of the LulzSec era?
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SpyEye gets new DDoS functionality
Researchers from RSA's FraudAction Research Lab are reporting on a recently discovered new module within the popular crimeware SpyEye.
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WordPress Distressed by Massive DDoS Attack
No one has taken "credit" for the attack, which temporarily knocked out the popular home of almost 18-million blogs.
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WordPress hit by major DDoS attack
Blog host WordPress.com was the target of a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack earlier today described by the company as the largest in its history.
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For and against: DDoS attacks as a legitimate form of protest?
For and against reasons for distributed or non-distributed denial-of-service attacks being a legitimate form of protest.
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How to try to stop DDoS Attacks
You can't stop them, but you can try to lessen their damage. Here's how.
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DDoS: How to take down WikiLeaks, MasterCard or any other Web site
DDoS attacks can take any site down these days, not just WikiLeaks or MasterCard, just ask Google. Here's how these assaults do their damage.
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Australian hackers fire DDoS attacks against anti-piracy fighters
Hackers are preparing to raise the stakes in their next assault on anti-piracy organizations after they crippled the website of the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft.
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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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Attack of the Opt-In Botnets
What's more devastating than a DDoS attack launched by a botnet? In some cases, that's the DDoS attack launched by the "opt-in botnet" aggregated through a crowdsourcing campaign.
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Researchers devise way to deny denial-of-service attacks
Researchers say they have devised a way to filter out denial of service attacks on computer networks, including cloud computing systems, improving security on government, commercial, and...
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