Reddit was taken down. DDoS attacks to blame.
Jason Harvey, system administrator for Reddit, has released some information about the DDoS attack to relieve any anxiety or curiosity that their community might have over the incident. The attack...
View ArticleBritish Banks might be the next target for DDoS
We have learned that the DDoS attackers have turned their attention to include banks Europe and the UK. Banks in the US have been attacked since early this year and the evidence is that the attention...
View ArticleMT. Gox issues with DDoS Attacks
The world’s largest exchange of the internet currency Bitcoin has become the latest target of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks which have previously affected some of the world’s largest...
View ArticleDNS Amplification Attack Explained
The internet acronym DNS stands for domain name server. These are the servers which translated the “www” web addresses, which humans understand and remember, into the numeric IP addresses, which...
View ArticleHow DDoS SYN Flood Works
We have investigated the denial of service or synchronized (SYN) flood attacks that have been occurring lately. The attacker’s goal is to send enough incomplete SYN requests to overwhelm the victim’s...
View ArticleIs “DDoS for hire” legal?
Ragebooter has become a hot topic of internet debate in recent times. The speculation has been fuelled in no small part by the intriguing, not to say eccentric behaviour of its founder, Justin Poland....
View ArticleWhat is a DDoS Attack?
A distributed denial of service attack, or DDoS attack, is method that can be used to force a particular website offline for an extended length of time. Unlike conventional electronic attacks, there is...
View ArticleDDoS cause DNS hosting problems
A number of domain name management and DNS hosting service providers have had their servers obstructed by a series of possibly related distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. The attacks, which...
View ArticleBitcoin fight DDoS back
The Bitcoin network fell victim to a DDoS (denial of service) attack last week forcing the core development team to patch the core reference design. Details remain unclear however, core developer, Jeff...
View ArticleBanks face further security risks
Banks are being warned to significantly increase their security measures after further DDoS attacks to their servers were discovered this month. As of yet, there has been no conformation of a theory as...
View ArticleCyber attacks more dangerous than ever
We are seeing a huge increase in the number of DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks being targeted at large organisations such as governments and banks. DDoS attacks are one of the oldest and...
View ArticleGame Servers Vulnerable to DDoS Attacks – Cube World
Cube Worlds’ launch of the anticipated Voxel-RPG game has been a tough one. Mainly because fans eagerly awaiting to get their hands on the game have not been able to buy it yet, even though the...
View ArticleDDoS visualization likened to an extreme table tennis match
With the number of reported DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks on the rise, it is likely that most people will have at least heard of this form of cyber crime. We know they target web servers...
View ArticleCyber crime to order for as little as $2 an hour
A new report commissioned by a DDoS protection service has uncovered the latest service offered online by cyber criminals: DDoS attacks to order. One particular service offers DDoS attacks lasting from...
View ArticleOver 1 in 5 UK Organisations Hit by DDoS Attacks in 2012
The Number of distributed denial-of-service attacks on UK organisations is rising according to a new report. A recent study carried out by Neustar Enterprise Services has discovered that as many as 22%...
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