Dmitriy Guzner, 19, of Verona, New Jersey was sentenced to one year in prison for launching distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against websites belonging to the Church of Scientology in January 2008. Following his release, the young DDoSer will also spend two years on probation.According to the prosecutors ... |
23 November 2009
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Two distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks have rendered the website of the Swedish police and many others inaccessible for several hours. The results of the preliminary investigation suggest that the platform of a media IT development company was specifically targeted.The first attack started on Thursday morni... |
31 October 2009
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The websites of the Atheist Foundation of Australia (AFA) and the Global Atheist Convention have been the target of a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack two days ago. As a result, the websites were knocked offline for extended periods of time and their owners had to change the hosting provider. Denial of se... |
22 October 2009
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The Bitbucket development project hosting service went down for long periods during the weekend and on Monday morning because of several powerful Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks directed at its EC2-powered infrastructure. Part of the reason why the downtimes were so serious was Amazon's tech support... |
6 October 2009
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Multiple users reported connection problems on Justin.tv during the weekend. The live video streaming website's administration announced that the intermittent downtime was caused by a sustained distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against its servers.The problems started sometime on Saturday morning and, ... |
21 September 2009
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Gawker and its sister websites suffered intermittent downtimes during the weekend and at the beginning of this week due to a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against its hosting server. An internal company memo reveals that the main target was The Consumerist. Gawker Media is a company that maintains seve... |
5 August 2009
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The command and control servers used by the Mydoom variant, responsible for the recent denial of service attacks against Korean and US government websites, receive instructions from a master server located in the UK. Meanwhile, the majority of experts agree that no evidence exists so far to incriminate North Korea. ... |
14 July 2009
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Millions of Chinese Internet users from the Shanxi, Guangxi, Zhejiang, Jiangsu and Hebei provinces had trouble getting online on Tuesday, because of a domain name system (DNS) chain reaction caused by an initial denial of service attack against a single provider. DNSPod, a Chinese DNS provider and domain registrar, ... |
22 May 2009
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Dmitriy Guzner, 19, of Verona, New Jersey, who was charged back in October 2008 for launching denial of service attacks against online services used by the Church of Scientology, has pleaded guilty, the United States Attorney's Office for the Central District of California (USAO) announces. Guzner has agreed to... |
12 May 2009
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NeuStar's UltraDNS service, used by many important businesses and organizations worldwide, has been the target of a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on Tuesday, making several popular websites hard to reach or completely inaccessible. The company has contained the attack and operations have returned t... |
2 April 2009
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Researchers from IT security firm SecureWorks have documented a new DNS amplification technique employed in recent DDoS attacks. The experts also provide possible solutions to mitigate such attacks. DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks occur when a service is flooded with a large number of packets to the poi... |
10 February 2009
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The owners of overclockers.co.uk (OcUK) have announced on their forum that £10,000 (around $13,800) can be cashed in by anyone who provides a tip that leads to the arrest and prosecution of the cyber-criminals who disrupted the normal activity of the website for over a week. OcUK is an on-line computer hardwar... |
23 January 2009
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