Hacker group claims to have hit websites of Angela Merkel and the German legislature among others
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DDoS Attack Takes Down Rackspace For Almost 12 Hours
London, Chicago, and North Virginia data centres targeted
Bitcoin Exhange Website Slaps 100 BTC Bounty On Hacker
Bitalo.com refuses to be bullied by blackmailers
Anonymous Takes Down Israeli Government Websites
“#OpOrwahHammad” comes after killing of 14 year old Palestinian-American boy
DDoS Attacks Increasing In Size And Volume As Smart Devices Are Targeted
Akamai says DDoS attacks are getting stronger as attackers make use of new techniques
Are You Ready For The Growing DDoS Threat?
Kaspersky Lab launches new defence as more European businesses try to reduce financial and reputational damage
Attackers Rush To Exploit Bash Flaw Before Systems Are Patched
Attackers use the bug in Bash to scan for vulnerable servers, augment backdoor Trojans and create botnets, aiming to strike before the systems are patched
US Banks Targeted In ‘Co-Ordinated’ Cyber Attacks – FBI Investigates
The FBI and Secret Service investigate reports that a number US banks suffered co-ordinated cyber attacks
BT: DDoS On The Rise, But Only Half Of UK Businesses Have Protection In Place
Almost a third of global organisations are attacked by DDoS more than once a year, suggests research by British Telecom
Cloudfare Offers DDoS Protection For ‘Free Speech’ Websites
CloudFlare offers free anti-DDoS protection for political and artistic websites exercising 'free speech'
Feedly Kills DDoS After Denying Extortion Attempt
News aggregator says it is back online after it refused to pay DDoS attackers who tried to extort them
Evernote Knocked Out By DDoS
Cloud service went down as a result of a DDoS attack launched late yesterday
TypePad Blames Large DDoS For Blog Outages
Second time in a month TypePad says DDoS attacks causing outages across blog platform
Massive DDoS Assault Launched From Anti-DDoS Servers
A new type of denial-of-service attack is ironically drawing upon the resources of services intended to guard against such dangers
UK Firms Hit By More Frequent And Costly DDoS Attacks
New research reveals that 32 percent of firms have suffered DDoS attacks costing £240,000 a day
France Getting Battered By DDoS Attacks
France is seeing massive amounts of DDoS traffic going through its networks, thanks to sizeable hits on the country's popular hosting providers
Cyber-Attackers Use NTP To Overwhelm Servers
In the first quarter attackers have shown a preference for reflection attacks, often using simple tools that make use of the Network Time Protocol
Games Maker Blizzard Suffers From European DDoS Attack
DDoS attack in Europe inadvertently hits games maker
Criminal Malware Used In Attacks On Ukraine Government
Ukraine government sites hit by criminal malware normally used in attacks on financial institutions, as epic DDoS attacks are launched
Nato Websites Attacked By ‘Ukranian Patriots’
Various Nato sites hit with DDoS attacks< days before the controversial referendum/p>
Over 160,000 WordPress Sites Used In DDoS Attacks
WordPress pingback feature exploited for attack amplification to knock a WordPress site offline
Thousands Of RBS, Natwest, Barclays Customers Hit By Mobile Banking App Outage
Customers left unable to access mobile accounts due to outage caused by major traffic surge
Wurm MMORPG Offers €10k Bounty For DDoS Attacker Info
Reward offered as Wurm struggles to come back online
CloudFlare: Biggest DDoS Ever Hits Europe
DDoS weighing in at nearly 400Gbps targets unnamed CloudFlare customer in Europe, as attackers use NTP to amplify attack
Cross-Platform Java Malware Used In DDoS Attacks
Kaspersky finds malware targeting unnamed bulk email service
Technical Glitch Cripples US Federal Courts
The FBI says Friday’s downtime was caused by a technical issue, while the European Cyber Army takes credit for DDoS
Cisco: DDoS And Infrastructure Attacks Among The Biggest Threats In 2014
Meanwhile, the industry is missing almost a million cyber security professionals
DDoS Attacks Target Network Timing Protocol
DDoS attacks against the Network Timing Protocol are flooding the market, warns US security body
RBS: NatWest Site Hit By DDoS
Just days after experiencing system failures, NatWest is hit by a DDoS
Bitcointalk.org Says DNS Was Hijacked, Passwords Compromised
On the same day, the website was also hit by DDoS attack