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UK Anonymous keeps up DDoS barrage on ICO

...The Information Commissioner's Office's website has been targeted by repeated DDoS attack. Image credit: ICO Attackers, including the ATeam, have been targeting the... Read more

16 May, 2012 by Tom Espiner

SOCA website taken down in DDoS attack

...night to limit the impact of a distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS) against other clients hosted by our service provider," the SOCA spokesman said... Read more

3 May, 2012 by Tom Espiner
IPv6 security: What you need to know

IPv6 security: What you need to know

...been reached in the "arms races between attackers and defenders", arguing that DDoS attacks will gradually increase over time as IPv6 is more widely deployed... Read more

5 May, 2012 by Axel Pawlik

Anonymous UK vows to target GCHQ again

...the next targets for Operation Trial at Home distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks in an online radio broadcast on Monday. "What's the next... Read more

17 April, 2012 by Tom Espiner

CloudFlare: How we got caught in LulzSec-CIA crossfire

...services in June to protect its website from distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, according to Prince. The group used the site to publicise its... Read more

1 March, 2012 by Tom Espiner

Akamai's DDoS Defender aims to snarl up hackers

...Akamai has released DDoS Defender, a service that provides an early warning system and tools for... Read more

12 October, 2011 by Jack Clark
Study: <endeca_term>DDoS</endeca_term> attacks reach IPv6 networks

Study: DDoS attacks reach IPv6 networks

...study. A study has found that the IPv6 internet is now experiencing DDoS attacks — although only four percent of survey respondents reported seeing them. Image... Read more

16 February, 2012 by Stephen Shankland

Anonymous floods web with links to aid DDoS attacks

...so the computer would continually try to access the target.Anonymous's DDoS attacks were intended to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), as... Read more

23 January, 2012 by Elinor Mills

Anonymous DDoS swoop results in five arrests

...Wikileaks. The Metropolitan Police have arrested five young men in connection with DDoS attacks launched by Anonymous. Photo credit: Metropolitan Police The five, who are... Read more

27 January, 2011 by Tom Espiner
Anonymous and <endeca_term>DDoS</endeca_term>: I predict a riot

Anonymous and DDoS: I predict a riot

...are far easier to launch than they are to defend against. A DDoS attack, despite being nothing new, is still one of the trickiest attacks... Read more

2 January, 2011 by Rik Ferguson

Anonymous claims DDoS strike on CIA website

...Anonymous. On its Twitter feed, online group Anonymous claimed responsibility for a DDoS attack on the CIA website on Friday. Image credit: CNET News With... Read more

13 February, 2012 by Elinor Mills

Pastebin falls victim to DDoS attacks

...can then share with others.Pastebin has only recently recovered from the DDoS attack that downed the site on Wednesday morning. Early on Friday, Pastebin... Read more

6 January, 2012 by Michael Lee

Police unit claims £140m success in e-crime crackdown

...crime such as computer intrusion, distribution of malware, distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks and internet fraud.The £140m represents the amount of money the... Read more

5 October, 2011 by Steve Ranger

Suspected Anonymous hacker refutes charges

...protest, participants used their computers to launch a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on Santa Cruz County servers, shutting them down temporarily, the indictment... Read more

26 September, 2011 by Elinor Mills

McAfee: South Korea botnet self-destructed after DDoS

...destroyed the host operating systems, forcing users to reinstall Windows. "After the DDoS, the malware wiped the master boot record, creating extra problems for civilian... Read more

7 July, 2011 by Tom Espiner

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