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Study: DDoS attacks reach IPv6 networks

Study: DDoS attacks reach IPv6 networks

A study by Arbor Networks has found that the fledgling IPv6 internet is now experiencing distributed denial-of-service attacks Read more

16 February, 2012 by Stephen Shankland

Anonymous floods web with links to aid DDoS attacks

The online activists lured users into clicking on links that aided their distributed denial-of-service attacks against law-enforcement and entertainment industry websites last week Read more

23 January, 2012 by Elinor Mills

SOCA website taken down in DDoS attack

...publicised the DDoS on Thursday, but did not claim responsibility. "TANGO DOWN: DDoS attack takes down site of UK Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA)," said... Read more

3 May, 2012 by Tom Espiner

Soca admits DDoS attack, claims secure info safe

...last night to limit the impact of the distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attack on other clients hosted by our service provider". "The Soca website... Read more

21 June, 2011

DDoS attack takes down Atlassian's SaaS platform

...one of its customers had been undergoing a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. It did not specify whether that customer was Atlassian, but said... Read more

6 June, 2011 by Renai LeMay

Web-hosting firm hit by China-based DDoS attack

...appeared to come from within China, the company said on Tuesday. The DDoS attack took Codero's customers offline for most of Tuesday morning, but... Read more

9 March, 2011 by Elinor Mills

WordPress suffers massive DDoS attack

...on this ZDNet UK-selected story, see WordPress hit by 'extremely large' DDoS attack on CNET News. Get the latest technology news and analysis, blogs... Read more

4 March, 2011 by Josh Lowensohn

Network Solutions hit by double DDoS attack

The web hosting company was hit by two distributed denial-of-service attacks earlier this week that left customers unable to access their websites Read more

22 June, 2011 by Erica Ogg

PayPal hit by DDoS attack after spurning Wikileaks

The PayPal blog was taken offline by denial-of-service attacks for several hours, after pulling the plug on the payments mechanism for whistleblower site Wikileaks Read more

6 December, 2010 by Darren Pauli

Lily Allen's website hit by DDoS attack

The pop singer's website was briefly disabled by attacks from online groups protesting against Allen's file-sharing stance Read more

6 October, 2010 by Darren Pauli
ANN Based Scheme to Predict Number of Zombies in a <endeca_term>DDoS Attack</endeca_term>

ANN Based Scheme to Predict Number of Zombies in a DDoS Attack

A real time estimation of the number of zombies in DDoS attack scenario is helpful to suppress the effect of attack by choosing... Read more

1 March, 2012
<endeca_term>DDoS attack</endeca_term> protection: Five best practice tips

DDoS attack protection: Five best practice tips

...to match the sophisticated disruption of a modern distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. In order to keep safe, organisations must keep up with the... Read more

26 October, 2011
Design & Implementation of Secure AODV in Multicast Routing to Detect <endeca_term>DDOS Attack</endeca_term>

Design & Implementation of Secure AODV in Multicast Routing to Detect DDOS Attack

...protocols. In this paper, the authors will secure the MANET from the DDOS attack. DDOS attacks are similar to DOS attacks but there is a... Read more

1 September, 2011
Comparison of Queuing Algorithms Against <endeca_term>DDoS Attack</endeca_term>

Comparison of Queuing Algorithms Against DDoS Attack

...an overview of Denial of Service (DoS) attack, Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack, methods of attack, DDoS attack tool kits and queuing algorithms Read more

9 July, 2011
An Enhanced SYN Cookie Defence Method for TCP <endeca_term>DDoS Attack</endeca_term>

An Enhanced SYN Cookie Defence Method for TCP DDoS Attack

With the development of network, the issues of network security are rapidly becoming a serious problem, and the Denial... Read more

1 August, 2011

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