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Twitter suffers denial of service attack
Blog Popular micro-blogging site Twitter has suffered a denial of service attack. We are defending against a denial-of-service attack, and will update status again shortly," said the status page. Programmer Barrett Lyon wrote in a blog post that site...
[August 6, 2009, 18:10 in News Blog by Tom Espiner]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Microsoft has launched its own denial of service attack on the Internet. Friday 19/12/2003 Well, what else can you call a security advisory that says that before clicking on a link, you should right click, copy, open Notepad, paste the link and...
[December 19, 2003, 16:15 in Rupert's Diary by Rupert Goodwins]
BBC victim of DDoS attack
Blog The BBC website was subjected to a distributed denial of service attack on Thursday, according to a report on The Inquirer. In a statement to the the Inq, the BBC said the attack originated in a number of different countries but didn't specify...
[November 10, 2008, 15:54 in News Blog by Tom Espiner]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Aaron Caffrey, the nineteen-year-old whose computer launched a denial of service attack that crippled the Port of Houston, has been found not guilty. His defence -- that someone else hacked into his computer, took it over and used it for the attack...
[October 17, 2003, 16:25 in Rupert's Diary by Rupert Goodwins]
Ukrainian presidential website under attack
Blog The website of the Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko has been suffering a prolonged distributed denial of service attack, according to a post on antivirus vendor F-Secure's blog. According to F-Secure, Russian groups are being blamed for the...
[October 31, 2007, 13:28 in News Blog by Tom Espiner]
Lycos should send its zombie army home
Talkback Lycos did say one server had lost 85 percent of its bandwidth, which is in anyone's book at least a partial denial of service attack (and we did make the point that we didn't want to get into semantics in the piece).
About: Lycos should send its zombie army home
[December 1, 2004, 17:30]
Feds take DDoS in their stride
Blog The US Department of Homeland Security has said that a series of distributed denial-of-service attacks began on US government networks on 4 July. DHS is aware of distributed denial-of-service attacks on federal and private sector public-facing...
[July 8, 2009, 18:18 in News Blog by Tom Espiner]
Lycos should send its zombie army home
Talkback I agree with the article that Lycos whether they claim there motivation was to "slow down" or to do a true denial of service, the end result was a denial of service for some. Couldn't someone who then doesn't agree with the way Lycos operates make...
About: Lycos should send its zombie army home
[December 5, 2004, 5:47]
BBC responds to botnet illegality claims
Blog BBC Click acquired the means to build a botnet, used it to spam Gmail and Hotmail accounts it had set up, and launch a distrbuted denial of service attack against security company Prev-X. There is a powerful public interest in demonstrating the...
[March 16, 2009, 13:27 in News Blog by Tom Espiner]
Which is the better story?
Blog That's not quite true - the Guardian media section noticed, and ran a rather sweet story about the site being under a distributed denial of service attack. But the question remains: who on earth who knows of the existence of the D Tel has...
[May 22, 2007, 17:03 in Rupert's Diary by Rupert Goodwins]
EU calls for 'Mister Cyber Security'
Blog She cited the massive denial-of-service attack that took down Estonia's internet services in 2007 as a example of the threat that is faced. Europe needs a 'Mister Cyber Security' as we have a 'Mister Foreign Affairs', a security tsar with authority...
[April 27, 2009, 15:46 in News Blog by David Meyer]
Chinese attack on CNN predicted
Blog I can't read Chinese, but according to the Dark Visitor contributor 'Heike', calls for a distributed denial of service attack against CNN's website have appeared on various Chinese language websites. A contributor to the 'Dark Visitor' blog has...
[April 18, 2008, 17:01 in News Blog by Tom Espiner]
BBC bought botnet
Blog It doesn't matter that the spam emails were sent to BBC accounts or that the distributed denial of service attack against Prev-X was pre-arranged, said Robertson. It spammed itself and by prior agreement launched an attack against security firm...
[March 12, 2009, 16:40 in News Blog by Tom Espiner]
Wikileaks taken offline
Blog Immediately prior to the fire, Wikileaks suffered a sustained distributed denial of service attack. According to a press release from Wikileaks, which provides an anonymous, encrypted online document-hosting service for whistle-blowers, Wikileaks...
[February 18, 2008, 17:06 in News Blog by Tom Espiner]
Linux servers 'attacked more often'
Talkback Once a system is compromised, an attacker can install malicious code known as a bot that allows the attacker to use the system for future scanning or as a launching point for future attacks (such as planned, distributed denial-of-service attacks).
About: Linux servers 'attacked more often'
[February 20, 2004, 19:15]
Kyrgyzstan under cyberattack
Blog Since last week Kyrgyzstan has been under a "massive denial of service attack", according to Information Warfare Monitor. Central Asian country Kyrgyzstan is under cyberattack, according to Information Warfare Monitor.
[January 29, 2009, 12:41 in News Blog by Tom Espiner]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Well, that's not quite true: before they scurry off into the darkness, Cloud Nine says, "We suffered a denial of service attack that caused physical damage to our systems, and it'll be a while before we're back.
[January 25, 2002, 15:56 in Rupert's Diary by Rupert Goodwins]
Does VMware's VMsafe fully protect your datacentre?
Blog The worst that seems to have occurred is a vulnerability that could lead to denial of service attack. Back in the bad old days when you deployed one app per server, you might have been a bit peevish about the idea that malware could start spraying...
[July 17, 2009, 15:53 in Sentry Posts by manek]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog What prompted this denial of service attack? Friday 26/03/2004 Ack! Just before lunchtime, the whole editorial team is shocked out of its intense copy-centric concentration by a fusillade of feeps and bleeps from their PCs.
[March 26, 2004, 16:15 in Rupert's Diary by Rupert Goodwins]
Dutch researchers crack London's Oyster card
Blog They were able to not only take free rides on the Underground, but even execute a denial-of-service attack on the gates. Now they've really gone and done it. At the start of the year, some Dutch researchers managed to crack the Netherlands...
[June 18, 2008, 17:03 in News Blog by David Meyer]
