Security researchers from security vendor Damballa, warn that a new botnet powering a commercial DDoS service has significantly grown to affect ISPs worldwide.The operation, named "IM DDOS" or "I'M DDOS" began at the end of March and consists of an online website where people can register and order Distributed D... |
14 September 2010 05:32 GMT |
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Over the weekend DNS Made Easy, a provider of enterprise DNS and IP Anycast services, was the target of a massive Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack, which peaked at over 50 Gbps. The unusually powerful attack led to an aggregated downtime of around 90 minutes.The attack occurred on Saturday and according to... |
9 August 2010 11:10 GMT |
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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 09:59 GMT |
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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 08:22 GMT |
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