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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]
Denial of service attacks are legal 'grey area'
Talkback I have received spam many times over the years and once from a so-called friend; you know DoS makes me nervous because you never know if you sue it the right way. But CMA is hard to deal with because when the term(CMA, DoS) is coined the fact...
About: Denial of service attacks are legal 'grey area'
[November 23, 2005, 10:59]
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 We have made one slight alteration to the article in light of these, but we believe that the point about denial of service attacks stands. Lycos did say one server had lost 85 percent of its bandwidth, which is in anyone's book at least a partial...
About: Lycos should send its zombie army home
[December 1, 2004, 17:30]
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. Regardless of how beneficial this may be to some it doesn't make it legal...
About: Lycos should send its zombie army home
[December 5, 2004, 5:47]
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]
UK police chief: Shut down 'abhorrent' Web sites
Talkback Currently, customers of my company are being hit by massive denial of service attacks, followed by blackmail demands. The National Hi Tech Crime Unit has (as far as I can see) done nothing about this so far - I'm beginning to suspect it consists...
About: UK police chief: Shut down 'abhorrent' Web sites
[February 25, 2004, 15:59]
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]
Attack downs Yahoo, Google and Microsoft
Talkback I hate these denial of service attacks but at least they won't stop me typing this mes.
About: Attack downs Yahoo, Google and Microsoft
[June 16, 2004, 11:18]
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. BBC technical staff speeded up website provision by blocking requests from a limited number of international servers, said...
[November 10, 2008, 15:54 in News Blog by Tom Espiner]
Germany passes 'anti-hacking tools' law
Blog Germany has toughened up its cybercrime laws in an effort to close up loop-holes, including those dealing with denial of service attacks. However, the law, passed on Friday, has drawn criticism for allegedly making illegal the development of dual...
[May 29, 2007, 12:14 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. Friday 17/10/2003 Hot news from Southwark Court! His defence -- that someone else hacked into his...
[October 17, 2003, 16:25 in Rupert's Diary by Rupert Goodwins]
Microsoft's IM and Hotmail show sporadic failures
Talkback Most of what I'm seeing is denial of hotmail service in China. I see a pattern here. HA HA! This is my third incident. One before on my computer in Shanghai. Then for six days during the May Holiday in Hangzhou.
About: Microsoft's IM and Hotmail show sporadic failures
[May 16, 2006, 12:36]
Cisco IOS FTP Server warning
Blog One from last week here, but Cisco is warning users of its IOS FTP Server feature about "multiple vulnerabilities", which could lead to denial-of-service attacks and other such nasties. What to do about it?
[May 15, 2007, 12:49 in News Blog by David Meyer]
The Mobile Industry’s Growing DoS Risk
Blog In the not so distant past, major labels such as Yahoo and Amazon have become targets of malicious Denial of Service (DoS) campaigns. DoS campaigns are designed to hit servers so hard with false traffic that the real traffic is denied service.
[April 10, 2008, 1:16 in On The Road by MobileTech]
Lycos should send its zombie army home
Talkback There are orders of magnitude difference between using a little bandwidth and using so much that the server becomes unavailable (which by the way is what is meant by 'denial-of-service'). The former denies service to no one.
About: Lycos should send its zombie army home
[December 1, 2004, 12:58]
Patch Management - Prioritise and Implement to address Critical Risks
Talkback It addresses a “critical” remote code execution for Windows Server 2000 and “important” denial of service vulnerabilities on more recent Microsoft server platforms, something to be avoided on an organization’s directory services infrastructure!
About: Microsoft rolls out record Patch Tuesday fixes
[June 10, 2009, 11:28 by lumension]
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]
Twitter, kids and analysts: a cautionary tale
Blog Matthew Robson ("Aged 15 yrs & 7 months") has managed to cause quite a stir in the tech community and beyond with his analysis for Morgan Stanley on teen trends, particularly with his denial of teen Twitter use.
[July 14, 2009, 9:42 in by David Meyer]
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]
