- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- March 9th, 2016
DDoS Malware Became Very Popular This Past January
There's a need for DDoS tools and services on the market
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- March 6th, 2016
Anonymous and Russia Are Behind a Huge Rise in DDoS Attacks Targeting Turkey
Russian-Turkish conflict spews into cyber-space
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- March 4th, 2016
Can You Guess How Much a Russian DDoSer Makes per Day?
Security firm tracked DDoS botnet for three months
- Security Blog
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- February 25th, 2016
Google's Project Shield Aims to Protect News Sites from DDoS Attacks
Human rights and elections monitoring services can also apply and get free DDoS protection from Google
- Incidents
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- February 21st, 2016
Linux Mint Website Hack: A Timeline of Events
Hackers were distributing an IRC DDoSing bot
- Server related
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- February 18th, 2016
One in Five Data Centers Outages Is Caused by DDoS Attacks
Outages caused by IT equipment failures are the most expensive incidents to fix, at $995 per interruption
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- February 17th, 2016
26,000 WordPress Sites Leveraged in Layer 7 DDoS Attack
Attackers (ab)used WordPress' pingback utility, again!
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- February 16th, 2016
Akamai Detected Over 400 Reflection DDoS Attacks Leveraging DNSSEC Protocol
DDoS attacks can reach an amplification factor of 8
- Hacking News
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- February 10th, 2016
Lizard Squad Is Battling Some Unknown White Hats for Control over Its Botnet
Linux.Wifatch makers plan to go after Lizard Squad's botnet
- Games
- By Andrei Dumitrescu
- February 1st, 2016
PlayStation Network Down, Sony Not Yet Acknowledging Problem Updated
It's unclear what the cause of the problem is
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- January 29th, 2016
Linux-Based Botnets Accounted for More than Half of DDoS Attacks in Q4 2015
The number of Linux DDoSing bots surpasses Windows for the first time ever, thanks to IoT devices and SOHO routers
- Security Blog
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- January 29th, 2016
UK Bank HSBC Hit by DDoS Attack on One of the Most Important Days of the Year
Bank says it will be open tomorrow to compensate downtime
- SEO-Related
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- January 28th, 2016
Some Black Hat SEO Campaigns Look like DDoS Attacks These Days
Customers panics when sees huge traffic, calls in the help of a cyber-security vendor to protect him from a DDoS attack
- Security Blog
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- January 28th, 2016
Anonymous Takes Down 20 Thai Prison Websites
#OpBoycottThailand is still on, now targets prisons
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- January 27th, 2016
500 Gbps DDoS Attack Recorded in 2015, Biggest One Yet
500 Gbps DDoS attack surpasses last year's 400 Gbps mark
- Security Blog
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- January 25th, 2016
Irish National Lottery Shut Down via DDoS Attack, Right Before Big Draw
Cyber-attack shuts down Irish Lottery ticket sales
- Security Blog
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- January 17th, 2016
DDoS Attack Hits Kickass Torrents, DNS Servers Crippled
Site goes down for most of the day on January 16