DoS

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.

10 years ago

Bitcoin Battered By DoS Attacks

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

11 years ago

High Bandwidth DoS Grow Alarmingly

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

11 years ago

South Korea Claims North Behind Cyber Attacks On Government Websites

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

11 years ago

Lulzsec Leader Arrested Down Under

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

12 years ago

Russian Arrested On Amazon.com Hack Charges

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

12 years ago

Ministry of Justice Hack Claimed By Lone ‘Security Consultant’

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

13 years ago

Researchers Discover Android Denial Of Service Exploit

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

13 years ago

Oracle Halts Denial Of Service Threat With Patches

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

13 years ago

DNS, DoS Attacks Slip Past Corporate Defences

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

13 years ago

Apache Killer DoS Bug Patched By Oracle

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

13 years ago

WikiLeaks Wars Hit Fax Machines

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

14 years ago

Why Hacktivists Are Fighting The WikiLeaks War

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

14 years ago