DDoS

NSA Says Website Downtime Was Caused By Botched Update, Not DDoS

Rumours of Anonymous involvement surface on Twitter, but ultimately prove false

11 years ago

Google Launches Anti-DDoS Service ‘Project Shield’

Google pushes out anti-DDoS service, a DDoS map of the world and a proxy offering for private communications

11 years ago

US Charges 13 Alleged Anonymous Members

Alleged Anonymous DDoSers charged for Operation Payback attacks

11 years ago

GitHub Struggles With Second Day Of DDoS Attacks

Code repository battered by DDoS attacks for the second day running

11 years ago

The 100Gbps DDoS Attack That No One Saw

Not many people noticed, but last week saw a DDoS attack using 100Gbps of raw bandwidth, says Sean Michael Kerner

11 years ago

Schoolboy Arrested Over Biggest DDoS Ever

London police investigating Spamhaus attacks, believed to be the biggest ever, arrested a 16-year-old

11 years ago

Chinese Internet Blasted By ‘Biggest DDoS It’s Seen’

Experts spot major jump in DDoS activity in China, as DNS provider takes a battering

11 years ago

KPMG: New Breed Of Cyber Attack Could Cripple Banks

British banks should watch out for fresh kinds of attacks as they can't afford to suffer another systemic shock, KPMG…

11 years ago

Cyber Attacks Strike Zimbabweans Around Controversial Election

Zimbabweans knocked offline and see data wiped because of slew of cyber attacks last week during the elections, TechWeekEurope learns

11 years ago

China Remains DDoS Traffic King Despite Indonesian Jump

China home to most DDoS attack traffic, but US source of most

11 years ago

How Cyber Extortion Really Goes Down

TechWeek exclusively exposes a real case of attempted cyber extortion, as a betting company is targeted by a DDoSer claiming…

11 years ago

Europe Sees ‘Extraordinary’ Spike In DDoS Attack Power

Data exclusively handed to TechWeek shows a significant rise in DDoS power in Europe, an area that hadn't traditionally seen…

11 years ago

OpUSA Threatens American Banks And Government Agencies

US expects the operation to go off with a whimper

12 years ago

‘Non-Stop’ Attacks Crippling Silk Road Drug Site

Attacks over Tor on illegal drug marketplace believed to be part of extortion attempts

12 years ago

Go Daddy European Sites Hit By Large DDoS

Hosting giant feels the force of an unusually large attack

12 years ago

InfoSec 2013: British Banks Threatened By DDoS Boom

US bank attackers have turned their attention to Europe, and UK financial institutions have been told to prepare

12 years ago

Reddit Hit By ‘Malicious DDoS’

Another day, another big site DDoSed

12 years ago

Bitcoin Blockchain And Mt.Gox Knocked Offline By DDoS Attacks

More trouble in Bitcoin land, with the Blockchain DDoSed, Mt.Gox suffering outages and BitFloor giving up entirely

12 years ago

Prolexic CEO: ‘Biggest Cyber Attack Ever’ Was Built On Lies

We were told it was the biggest DDoS ever, but Prolexic's CEO says it's hugely unlikely that's true

12 years ago

DDoS Power Up 718 Percent Amidst Widespread Batterings

Prolexic sees seven-fold rise in average attack strength

12 years ago

Oxbridge And Kent Police Cyber Attacker Pleads Guilty

Universities needed two weeks’ worth of man hours to recover from attacks of 21-year-old

12 years ago

Bitcoin Rocked By Java Exploit-Wielding Thieves And New DDoS Strike

Cyber crooks are getting awfully fond of Bitcoin

12 years ago

LulzSec Members Plead Guilty To NHS, Sony Attacks

Four LulzSec hackers now await sentencing next month

12 years ago

Anonymous Attacks On Israel ‘Have Achieved Next To Nothing’

OpIsrael did not have "a single noteworthy technical achievement", despite Anonymous claims of $3 billion damage, source in Tel-Aviv says

12 years ago

Mt.Gox Bitcoin Exchange Hit By ‘Major DDoS Attack’

World's largest Bitcoin exchange says it is under the biggest DDoS attack it has ever seen

12 years ago

FBI Warns Of DoS Attacks On Emergency Telephones

US authorities are warning about Telephone Denial of Service attacks against emergency telephone systems

12 years ago

Symantec Links South Korean Cyber-Attack To 2011 Incident

Symantec has found technical similarities between the recent cyber-disruption in South Korea and 2011 distributed denial-of-service attacks

12 years ago

‘Biggest DDoS Attack’ Did Not Hurt The Global Internet – This Time

TechWeekEurope investigates - the Spamhaus attacks didn't slow the Internet much at all, but they are seriously worrying

12 years ago

Millions Of Open Servers Are Helping To Set Off Huge Digital Bombs

Spamhaus attacks show how the Internet's millions of open DNS resolvers are 'the scourge of the Internet'

12 years ago

Security Journalists Struck By Cyber Criminals

Researcher hit by hoax that brought a SWAT team to his door

12 years ago