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19,000 French Websites Hit By ‘Unprecedented’ DoS Attacks After Charlie Hebdo Shooting

Isis supporters have taken many of France’s websites offline in an “unprecedented” hack.

Attackers take advantage of a weakness in the cryptocurrency protocol known as “transaction malleability” and a number of exchanges suspend trading

A new report reveals the scale of the modern denial-of-service attacks, most of which exceed 1Gbps

Denial of service hits that coincided with the anniversary of the Korean War blamed on the North

Australian Federal Police have reportedly arrested the leader of the global hacking group Lulzsec

A Russian man has been arrested in Cyprus on allegations that he carried out denial-of-service attacks on Amazon.com, Priceline.com and eBay

MoJ hack was not an Anonymous operation, but the work of a lone supporter, the claimed culprit told TechWeekEurope

Italian researchers have uncovered an Android vulnerability which could render a device unusable through a DoS attack

Oracle has issued patches to close down a vulnerability that could cause a denial of service in some products

A new study has found that existing security measures are increasingly inadequate in mitigating attacks

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Oracle patched the Apache Killer vulnerability in Oracle Fusion Middleware and Application Server

The Anonymous group has expanded its WikiLeaks reprisal attacks to include fax machines

Most hackers work in secret for money. The hacktivists punishing WikiLeaks' enemies are different, says Noa Bar Yosef