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Stories about: DDoS threat

UK Government Takes Anonymous DDoS Threats Seriously The UK Computer Emergency Response Team (GovCertUK) has taken Anonymous DDoS threats very seriously and has advised government departments to prepare to defend their websites."We would like to make you aware of a threat issued by the Anonymous group in reaction to the five arrests made yesterday by the Metropolitan P... 28 January 2011 13:34 GMT Scammers Make DDoS Threats Against Website Owners A group of scammers is trying to trick website owners into sending them money by threatening to launch crippling Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks.According to security researchers from Symantec who intercepted the fake messages, the scammers are sending them to email addresses they gather from domain whoi... 18 August 2010 15:27 GMT