- Incidents
- By Lucian Constantin
- September 21st, 2009
Denial of Service Attack Hits Justin.tv
Service suffers intermittent downtime
- Incidents
- By Lucian Constantin
- August 7th, 2009
Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, LiveJournal Hit to Silence Blogger
Sign of a massively coordinated distributed denial of service attack
- Advisories
- By Lucian Constantin
- August 6th, 2009
Flaws in XML Libraries Put Countless Applications at Risk
Can be used to trigger denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code
- Incidents
- By Lucian Constantin
- August 5th, 2009
Gawker Media Websites Hit by DDoS
The Consumerist blog was the intended target
- iPhone
- By Ionut Arghire
- July 30th, 2009
iPhone Jailbreaking Is Dangerous, Apple Says
Hackers would be able to flood the carrier's network
- Server related
- By Lucian Constantin
- July 29th, 2009
BIND DNS Servers Vulnerable to Denial of Service Attacks
Remotely exploitable bug discovered in the popular DNS software
- Security
- By Lucian Constantin
- July 13th, 2009
DDoS Worm Starts Damaging Infected Systems
Overwrites the hard disk master boot record and encrypts personal files
- Incidents
- By Lucian Constantin
- July 8th, 2009
US Government Websites Hit During DDoS Attack
Some South Korean official sites also targeted
- Security
- By Lucian Constantin
- June 22nd, 2009
Iranian DDoS Mob Exposed to Drive-By Attacks
Because of the low-tech denial of service methods used
- Server related
- By Lucian Constantin
- June 20th, 2009
Web Servers in Danger from Low Bandwidth HTTP DoS
New attack capable of rendering web servers unresponsive with ease
- Security
- By Lucian Constantin
- May 12th, 2009
Church of Scientology DDoSer Pleads Guilty
The teen has been a member of the protest group called Anonymous
- Security
- By Lucian Constantin
- May 6th, 2009
Grid Computer Vendor Offers DDoS Testing
On demand distributed denial of service attacks to help companies test their networks
- Security
- By Lucian Constantin
- April 8th, 2009
Patching Process for Major Internet Design Flaws Suffers Blow
As key security researcher passes away
- Incidents
- By Lucian Constantin
- April 2nd, 2009
Denial of Service Attack Affects Global DNS Service
Amazon and several other large companies affected
- Advisories
- By Lucian Constantin
- March 27th, 2009
0-Day Exploit for Critical Firefox Vulnerability Released
Mozilla developers rush to ship out a patch
- Security
- By Lucian Constantin
- March 9th, 2009
Two-Year-Old Cyberattack on Estonia Again in the Spotlight
After Russian official admits that his assistant instrumented the 2007 DDoS attack
- Security
- By Lucian Constantin
- March 3rd, 2009
Conficker to Hit Legit Websites
A collateral damage of its call-home routines