- Security Blog
- By Ionut Ilascu
- July 30th, 2014
Pushdo Botnet Continues to Stay Strong
Security company recorded requests from almost 200,000 IP addresses
- Security
- By Ionut Ilascu
- July 28th, 2014
Linux DDoS Bot Found in Amazon Cloud
Old Elasticsearch vulnerability used to gain access to the cloud machine
- Security Blog
- By Ionut Ilascu
- July 25th, 2014
19-Year-Old Russian Arrested for DDoS Attacks and Ransom Demands
He published the attacks on a short-lived Twitter account
- Security Blog
- By Ionut Ilascu
- July 24th, 2014
Fake Googlebots Used for Layer 7 DDoS Attacks
Company says that 23.5% of the fake crawlers are used in DDoS attacks
- Security
- By Ionut Ilascu
- July 23rd, 2014
Slightly Fewer DDoS Incidents in Q2 2014
The average distributed denial-of-service attack grows stronger, though
- Security
- By Ionut Ilascu
- July 17th, 2014
DDoS Attacks Decrease in Q2 2014, Compared to Q1
Overall, 2014 has seen the largest DDoS attacks ever
- Security
- By Ionut Ilascu
- July 11th, 2014
17-Year-Old Behind Norway DDoS Attacks This Week
Teen comes clean, says he is sorry for what he did
- Security
- By Ionut Ilascu
- July 10th, 2014
WordPress Pingback Feature Used for DDoS Attack in Norway
Application layer attacks are among the most difficult to mitigate
- Incidents
- By Ionut Ilascu
- July 9th, 2014
Anonymous Norway Attacks Major Financial Institutions
Hacktivist group uses WordPress vulnerability in DDoS attack
- Security Blog
- By Ionut Ilascu
- July 8th, 2014
Spamhaus Waiting for Charging of Other Stophaus Members
The group had five more members, from the U.S., Russia and China
- Security Blog
- By Ionut Ilascu
- June 30th, 2014
British Teen Charged with Computer Misuse
He was arrested last year after a series of major DDoS attacks
- Security
- By Ionut Ilascu
- June 25th, 2014
Number of Vulnerable NTP Servers Spirals Down
Over 2,000 NTP servers can amplify attacks more than 700 times
- Security
- By Ionut Ilascu
- June 23rd, 2014
DDoS on Online Democracy Poll Proves Inefficient
Hong Kong residents expressed their opinion on the election system
- Internet Life
- By Gabriela Vatu
- June 21st, 2014
Anonymous Takes Down World Cup Site After Issuing Warnings
Incapsula points out that organizations need to reevaluate their DDoS protection
- Incidents
- By Ionut Ilascu
- June 19th, 2014
Amazon EC2 Console Breach Shuts Down Code-Hosting Service
Massive amount of data deleted, company to refund paying customers
- Incidents
- By Ionut Ilascu
- June 19th, 2014
Ancestry Services Crippled by DDoS Attack
Users advised to use Family Tree Maker in offline mode
- Web resources
- By Gabriela Vatu
- June 13th, 2014
Feedly Suffers Another DDoS Attack for Third Day in a Row
The service is down once more and will likely be so for the next few hours