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DDoS attackers line up new targets

Hackers in the 'Operation Payback' campaign have announced their intention to target anti-piracy organisations, including a BitTorrent monitoring service Read more

29 September, 2010 by Darren Pauli

Pirate Bay comes under denial-of-service attack

The Pirate Bay came under a sustained attack on Tuesday and Wednesday, knocking the file-sharing service's website... Read more

17 May, 2012
A Survey on Various Defense Mechanisms Against Application Layer Distributed <endeca_term>Denial of Service Attack</endeca_term>

A Survey on Various Defense Mechanisms Against Application Layer Distributed Denial of Service Attack

The severity of application layer Distributed Denial of Service attack has become a major threat to network operators nowadays... Read more

1 November, 2011
On a New Type of <endeca_term>Denial of Service Attack</endeca_term> in Wireless Networks: The Distributed Jammer Network

On a New Type of Denial of Service Attack in Wireless Networks: The Distributed Jammer Network

In this paper, the authors introduce a new type of denial of service attack to wireless networks: Distributed Jammer Network (DJN), which is... Read more

18 May, 2011
Puzzle Based Approach for Solving <endeca_term>Denial of Service Attack</endeca_term> in Mobile WIMAX

Puzzle Based Approach for Solving Denial of Service Attack in Mobile WIMAX

...authors are proposing solution for one of the main Threat which is Denial of Service attack. The proposed solution is based on Puzzle approach. As... Read more

1 April, 2012
Analysis of <endeca_term>Denial of Service Attack</endeca_term>

Analysis of Denial of Service Attack

Proxy network-based defense has recently emerged to address an open research challenge. Protecting Internet service... Read more

1 October, 2011
WDA: A Web Farm Distributed <endeca_term>Denial of Service Attack</endeca_term> Attenuator

WDA: A Web Farm Distributed Denial of Service Attack Attenuator

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are familiar threats to Internet users for more than 10 years. Such attacks... Read more

1 June, 2010

SOCA website taken down in DDoS attack

...Organised Crime Agency has taken its website offline due to a distributed denial-of-service attack. The UK law enforcement agency asked its hosting provider... Read more

3 May, 2012 by Tom Espiner

Anonymous claims DDoS strike on CIA website

...website went down on Friday afternoon in what looked like a distributed denial-of-service attack publicised by members of the online activist group Anonymous... Read more

13 February, 2012 by Elinor Mills

Soca admits DDoS attack, claims secure info safe

...Serious Organised Crime Agency, or Soca, has admitted coming under a distributed denial-of-service attack on Monday, an attack claimed by the combined forces... Read more

21 June, 2011

DDoS attack takes down Atlassian's SaaS platform

...A distributed denial-of-service attack against Atlassian's hosting provider took the company's... Read more

6 June, 2011 by Renai LeMay

Web-hosting firm hit by China-based DDoS attack

...A distributed denial-of-service attack that affected thousands of customers at web-hosting firm... Read more

9 March, 2011 by Elinor Mills

Size of DDoS group 'doesn't matter', security agency says

...The number of people needed to launch a successful denial-of-service attack has been overestimated by the press, according to the... Read more

16 December, 2010 by Jack Clark

Intellectual Property Office website taken offline

...Intellectual Property Office has taken its website offline due to an ongoing denial-of-service attack. The IPO said in a statement on Monday that... Read more

18 October, 2010

WordPress suffers massive DDoS attack

The blog host has reported it suffered the largest distributed denial-of-service attack in its history, with a number of blogs suffering... Read more

4 March, 2011 by Josh Lowensohn

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