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The website of the Swedish National Defence Radio Establishment (Forsvarets Radioanstalt) has been the target of a prolonged denial of service attack this week. There is some speculation that the incident was caused to protest to the agency's new role of intercepting and monitoring Internet traffic passing throu... |
6 November 2009
04:41 GMT |
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Khalid Shaikh, co-founder and former CEO of YouSendIt, was indicted last week for allegedly attacking the company's servers repeatedly. The prosecutors claim that he used an Apache benchmarking program to launch the denial of service (DoS) attacks.YouSendIt is a popular digital content delivery service based in ... |
2 November 2009
05:15 GMT |
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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
07:08 GMT |
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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
05:02 GMT |
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Local Polish media reports that the country's government network was the target of an organized cyberattack back in September. The authorities are reluctant to disclose details about the incident, but apparently the attack originated in Russia.According to the Polish Rzeczpospolita (The Republic) newspaper, the ... |
15 October 2009
10:03 GMT |
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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
09:00 GMT |
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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
09:38 GMT |
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Various social networking, blogging, and other popular services such as Twitter, Facebook, Blogger, LiveJournal, YouTube or Google Sites were the target of a massive DDoS attack yesterday, which impacted them in different ways. The intended target appears to have been a pro-Georgian blogger with accounts on all of th... |
7 August 2009
04:32 GMT |
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Researchers from Finnish security testing company Codenomicon warn that most open source XML parsing libraries suffer from vulnerabilities that can be exploited to generate denial of service conditions or execute hostile code. This research could have huge implications as there are a big number of applications that u... |
6 August 2009
06:12 GMT |
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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
05:29 GMT |
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Jailbreaking the iPhone is a common practice these days, so common that the Electronic Freedom Foundation (EFF) even came to the U.S. Copyright Office with the proposal to legalize the practice. The process, as many of you might already know, is based on modifying the iPhone so that it would run applications that ha... |
30 July 2009
06:58 GMT |
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Internet Systems Consortium (ISC), the maintainer of BIND, advises that a critical vulnerability allows attackers to perform denial of service attacks by sending malformed dynamic update messages to DNS servers using the software. Administrators are urged to deploy patches for their operating system immediately, if a... |
29 July 2009
04:57 GMT |
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The malware responsible for the recent denial of service attacks against many U.S. and South Korean government and commercial websites has received an update to damage the computers it infected. Starting with July 10, the worm began to rewrite HDD Master Boot Records (MBR), leaving the zombie computers unbootable. L... |
13 July 2009
06:56 GMT |
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Websites belonging to numerous U.S. and South Korean government agencies, as well as some other large commercial ones, have been under attack for the past several days by computers infected with a new piece of malware. The widespread DDoS assault resulted in slow responses from the targeted websites and even downtime... |
8 July 2009
07:14 GMT |
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Following the controversy in Iran, over the recent allegedly rigged presidential elections, a guerrilla-type cyberwar broke out. Contesters resorted to launching denial of service attacks against governmental websites to accompany street protests against the re-election of President Ahmadinejad. Similar methods of p... |
22 June 2009
10:15 GMT |
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A new type of attack launched from a single machine with limited hardware resources and bandwidth can cripple many of the webservers on the Internet today. Instead of flooding the server with more packets than it can handle, this new denial of service condition implies sending only a couple of hundreds of partial HTT... |
20 June 2009
07:52 GMT |
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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
05:52 GMT |
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Parabon, a provider of computation on demand, has announced a new service for simulating real-world DDoS conditions, which employs its computing grid across the U.S. Companies can order such tests so as to see how their computer infrastructure and protection mechanisms will cope with a real attack. Distributed Denia... |
6 May 2009
08:41 GMT |
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Jack C. Louis, senior security officer at Finnish security company Outpost24 and reputed researcher, passed away in a house fire accident at his home on March 15th, at the age of 32. He was working with major vendors in the IT industry to patch several severe TCP-stack vulnerabilities that could threaten the stabili... |
8 April 2009
09:24 GMT |
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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
05:46 GMT |
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The release of proof-of-concept exploit code for an unresolved critical bug that allows for remote arbitrary code execution on the latest stable version of Mozilla Firefox has put developers on alert. A fix will be included in the 3.0.8 version of the browser, which is scheduled for release in a few days. The vulner... |
27 March 2009
05:53 GMT |
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During a video conference between Moscow and Washington, to which reporters from both countries participated, Russian State of Duma Deputy Sergei Markov shocked everyone when he claimed that his assistant launched the attacks that crippled the entire Estonian IT infrastructure back in 2007. Sergei Markov is a Deputy... |
9 March 2009
09:01 GMT |
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Researchers from antivirus vendor Sophos warn that, during March, the operations of several rather popular websites hosted on legit domains could be affected by the update routines of the Conficker worm. The list includes a domain belonging to Southwest Airlines. The Conficker worm is one of the most successful worm... |
3 March 2009
03:55 GMT |
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Cisco has published a security advisory announcing four vulnerabilities, which affect all of its Wireless LAN Controller (WLC) platforms. The company has also released security patches in order to mitigate the risks. The most serious flaw of the four is rated by Cisco as moderate and exploiting it can allow a remote... |
5 February 2009
08:27 GMT |
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The entire Internet infrastructure of the democratic Republic of Kyrgyzstan has been severely crippled by DDoS attacks originating in Russia. The intense attacks targeting the major ISPs in the country have been sustained for over a week, report researchers from information security firm SecureWorks.The attacks which... |
29 January 2009
05:31 GMT |
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Israel supporters respond to the cyber-attacks launched by Islamic hackers through DDoS. A group of students have developed an application that allows Israel sympathizers to use their computer resources and Internet bandwith in order to knock Palestinian websites offline. The online group calling themselves “H... |
10 January 2009
05:20 GMT |
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For hundreds of CastleCops volunteers, Christmas has not brought good news this year, as reports about their beloved website closing down have surfaced. The community behind the project directed their efforts over the years towards tracking phishing campaigns, analyzing malware, training users and offering free assis... |
29 December 2008
13:20 GMT |
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Bob Harrison has been running, for many years now, the bobbear.co.uk website, aimed at informing users about online fraud and identity theft schemes. A few days back, Harrison was unpleasantly surprised to find his website inoperable, due to a massive denial of service attack. Upon further investigations, he discover... |
18 November 2008
05:39 GMT |
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Dmitriy Guzner, 18, from Verona, New Jersey, has been charged for launching DDoS attacks that crippled websites belonging to the Church of Scientology in January 2008. His actions were part of a much larger campaign against Scientology launched in January by a group calling themselves Anonymous. Guzner has agreed to ... |
20 October 2008
04:33 GMT |
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The United States Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced that 21-year-old Gregory King from Fairfield, California was sentenced to serve two years in a federal prison for two counts of transmitting code with the purpose of harming protected computers. King pleaded guilty and admitted to have used a botnet of infected m... |
14 October 2008
11:07 GMT |
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Researchers from the Swedish security company Outpost24 have discovered a major flaw in the design of TCP stacks which could put TCP-enabled devices at risk. According to their findings, which they kept secret for three years, performing DoS attacks through this vulnerability would require little bandwidth and the at... |
2 October 2008
10:02 GMT |
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