DDoS

Fresh DDoS Attacks Batter US Banks

Major US banks are once again hit by DDoS attacks, with speculation increasing about their origins

12 years ago

Anonymous UK Teenager Avoids Jail

Judge says Jake Birchall would have been jailed if he wasn't just 16 at the time of attacks on PayPal…

12 years ago

UK Anonymous Hackers Get Jail Time

Attackers who hit PayPal, MasterCard and other major firms in the name of Anonymous get jail time

12 years ago

US Officials Suspect Iran Of Bank DDoS Attacks

US and Iran cyber tussles continuing, according to a report

12 years ago

Westboro Baptist Church Web Security Provider To Donate Proceeds To Charity

DDoS vendor and Anonymous siphon money from anti-gay hate group

12 years ago

Anonymous Attacks ‘Cost PayPal £3.5m’

Alleged Anonymous DDoSer is on trial

12 years ago

TechWeekEurope’s Tom Brewster Is BT Information Security Journalist Of The Year

TechWeekEurope Deputy Editor recognised at awards ceremony in London

12 years ago

Theresa May DDoS Suspect Arrested

PCeU works with East Midlands force to arrest 41-year-old male

12 years ago

Anonymous Claims DDoS Hit On HSBC

HSBC services downed by DDoS attack

12 years ago

RSA 2012: Anonymous ‘Didn’t Kill Evil, They Fed The Man’

Josh Corman, of Akamai, says Anonymous failed to fight evil and just helped security firms sell their kit

12 years ago

European Nations Fending Off Massive DDoS Attack In Cyber War Games

Tests will challenge over 300 security pros on more than 1200 security events and a massive DDoS

12 years ago

US Bank Hits Prove DDoS Attacks Are Scarily Powerful

US bank attacks prove that DDoS hits are getting much nastier. Businesses should be more than a little concerned, says…

12 years ago

Microsoft Finds Nitol Botnet Malware On PCs In Chinese Supply Chain

Microsoft finds Nitol in brand new Chinese PCs and seizes domain to kill it off

12 years ago

Anonymous Claims Attack Which Shut Millions Of GoDaddy Sites

Anonymous accused of censorship after attack on so-called censor

12 years ago

MI5 And MI6 Websites Attacked By Assange Protesters

Intelligence agencies the latest target in #OpFreeAssange

12 years ago

MP Peter Hain: Anonymous Hack Was Attack On Freedom Of Speech

Labour MP tells TechWeekEurope Anonymous hack of his site was irrational

12 years ago

Anonymous Strikes Down Government Websites In Assange Protest

Anonymous shows its support for Assange with attacks on DWP and the MoJ

12 years ago

Wikileaks Back Online After ‘10Gbps DDoS’

Thanks to help from CloudFlare, Wikileaks recovers from a DDoS attack

12 years ago

Anonymous Vows Revenge For Wikileaks And Demonoid Blackouts

Wikileaks sites remain down, as does Demonoid, and Anonymous isn't happy

12 years ago

Facebook Gambling ‘Gives Hackers Greater Reason To Attack It’

Hackers are likely to be excited by Facebook's move in to gambling

12 years ago

WikiLeaks ‘Under DDoS Again’

The second DDoS strike on WikiLeaks this year has taken its site offline, Assange's organisation says

12 years ago

CloudFlare CDN: We Have To Stay Open, Even To Evil

CloudFlare's network will remain open to all, says CEO Matthew Prince

12 years ago

Super-Charged DDoS Attacks Spike In 2012

Exclusive: Attackers ramp up their use of super-powerful DDoS strikes and Xbox gamers are getting hit too, data shown to…

12 years ago

Dealing With The DDoS Dealers

TechWeekEurope investigates the DDoS market, looking at how the dealers make their money, who's buying and what can be done…

12 years ago

Twitter Denies Hackers Caused Fail

UGNazi hackers claimed responsibilty for an outage, Twitter denied it

13 years ago

Anonymous Attacks DWP Website Over Privacy Breaches

The DWP becomes the next target of Anonymous splinter cell, the ATeam

13 years ago

WikiLeaks Down After ‘72-Hour DDoS’

WikiLeaks sees its website go down, claiming a DDoS has been smashing the site for three days

13 years ago

Pirate Bay DDoS: Anonymous Not To Blame

The Pirate Bay is back online after a big DDoS hit, saying Anonymous is not to blame

13 years ago

We Join Anonymous In IRC Chat During The ICO Blackout

TechWeekEurope is invited into an Anonymous team's IRC session to learn about the group's aims and watch its big botnets…

13 years ago

ICO Struggles To Get Website Back Online After ‘Bot Attack’

A suspected DDoS hit is causing the ICO problems

13 years ago