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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
US Charges 13 Alleged Anonymous Members
Alleged Anonymous DDoSers charged for Operation Payback attacks
GitHub Struggles With Second Day Of DDoS Attacks
Code repository battered by DDoS attacks for the second day running
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
Schoolboy Arrested Over Biggest DDoS Ever
London police investigating Spamhaus attacks, believed to be the biggest ever, arrested a 16-year-old
Chinese Internet Blasted By ‘Biggest DDoS It’s Seen’
Experts spot major jump in DDoS activity in China, as DNS provider takes a battering
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 says
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
China Remains DDoS Traffic King Despite Indonesian Jump
China home to most DDoS attack traffic, but US source of most
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 to work for a rival firm
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 massive attacks
OpUSA Threatens American Banks And Government Agencies
US expects the operation to go off with a whimper
‘Non-Stop’ Attacks Crippling Silk Road Drug Site
Attacks over Tor on illegal drug marketplace believed to be part of extortion attempts
Go Daddy European Sites Hit By Large DDoS
Hosting giant feels the force of an unusually large attack
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
Reddit Hit By ‘Malicious DDoS’
Another day, another big site DDoSed
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
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
DDoS Power Up 718 Percent Amidst Widespread Batterings
Prolexic sees seven-fold rise in average attack strength
Oxbridge And Kent Police Cyber Attacker Pleads Guilty
Universities needed two weeks’ worth of man hours to recover from attacks of 21-year-old
Bitcoin Rocked By Java Exploit-Wielding Thieves And New DDoS Strike
Cyber crooks are getting awfully fond of Bitcoin
LulzSec Members Plead Guilty To NHS, Sony Attacks
Four LulzSec hackers now await sentencing next month
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
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
FBI Warns Of DoS Attacks On Emergency Telephones
US authorities are warning about Telephone Denial of Service attacks against emergency telephone systems
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
‘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
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'
Security Journalists Struck By Cyber Criminals
Researcher hit by hoax that brought a SWAT team to his door