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UK man charged with DDoS attack
News Aaron Caffrey, charged with committing a DDoS attack on the port of Houston's IT systems, was acquitted in 2003. A UK man was due in court on Monday over claims he used a network of zombies to commit distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.
[January 18, 2005, 8:35]
Web criminals hit Betfair with DDOS attack
News In an statement posted on its site, Betfair told its users that it been the victim of a distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack. Betfair [has] experienced a distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack by criminals using the Internet which...
[July 1, 2004, 11:10]
Major Online Stock Broker Turns to Verizon Business to Help Stop a Potentially Devastating DDoS Attack
White Papers And, as a major online stock broker found out, the threat of a DDoS attack can be the perfect tool for extortion. Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks are often the weapon of choice for would-be criminals who target Internet sites.
[May 30, 2009, 1:19]
UK gambling company warns of DDoS-attack risk
News Gala Coral e-commerce's gambling sites were taken down for almost 30 minutes by the next-generation 10Gb distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, delegates at the e-Crime Congress 2008 in London were told this week.
[March 7, 2008, 14:04]
Worm could be clearing path for DDoS attack
News A new worm that leaves behind two Trojan horse programs has begun spreading over the Internet, and may be paving the way for a crippling distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. The IRC bot, when activated, connects to a remote server and waits...
[March 10, 2003, 8:53]
Seti's Boinc project hit by DDoS attack
News The University of California's distributed-computing project that searches for extraterrestrial intelligence (Seti) was temporarily knocked offline by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack last week.
[July 29, 2004, 10:10]
DDoS attack shuts down anti-spam blacklist
Talkback Draconian or not, the UCE debacle is being caused by low lifes that just can't seem to get the concept of unwanted UCE. If takes blocking legitimate email to stop UCE so be it. If it occurs enough maybe the legitimate businesses will unite to put...
[January 13, 2004, 15:39]
DDoS attack shuts down anti-spam blacklist
Talkback Please do your re-search properly. Osirusoft is a US based service and not an Australian Based Blacklisting service. Unless you have omitted some other information, relating to some other Australian based black lists, your Sub-heading is wrong.
[August 28, 2003, 3:48]
DDoS attack shuts down anti-spam blacklist
Talkback I'm glad they shut this guy down. His draconian approach does more harm than good, plus he's a real arrogant bloke.
[September 2, 2003, 16:51]
Australian gov't calls on experts over DDoS attack
News The only website that appears to have been affected by yesterday's distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attack on government web servers was the site belonging to the Australian prime minister and cabinet.
[September 10, 2009, 10:18]
BBC victim of DDoS attack
Blog Comment That's interesting, Thankfully I managed to get my dr Karl fix on thursday. Had a lot of problems getting on today though, and it's only just loaded up as I write this, so I'll go get the show you were on now.
[November 10, 2008, 16:07]
A Year Ago: New DDoS attack tool in development
News MStream flies under the radar of a technique known as egress filtering, designed to stop DDoS attacks The tool, known as MStream, seems to be able to fly under the radar of a technique known as egress filtering, designed to stop DDoS attacks.
[May 1, 2001, 6:00]
ALERT: New DDoS attack tool in development
News The tool, known as MStream, seems to be able to fly under the radar of a technique known as egress filtering, designed to stop DDoS attacks. The lesson here is that there is no 'quick fix' to DDoS in the form of simple technical filtering solutions...
[May 2, 2000, 16:27]
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]
Kazaa and eDonkey brace for attack from Netsky
News File-sharing Web sites Kazaa and eDonkey are bracing for a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack starting on Wednesday that will be launched by a clutch of new variants of the Netsky worm. However, they will get only a short break because...
[April 6, 2004, 15:05]
Proactively Defeating Distributed Denial of Service Attacks
White Papers A Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack is an explicit attempt to interrupt an online service by generating a high volume of malicious traffic. This paper presents a Source Router Preferential Dropping (SRPD) scheme to detect and defeat DDoS...
[June 24, 2009, 16:02]
Viruses and DDoS attacks flood UK firms
News Half of UK businesses fell victim to either a virus or distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack in the past year, a 25 percent increase on the year before, according to latest research carried out on behalf of the Department of Trade and Industry.
[March 2, 2004, 13:10]
Black Frog hops into spam battle
Talkback Opt-Out messages being called a form of DDOS regardless of how they are generated, as long as they still represent a 1 to 1 spam to opt-out message ratio is not an attack, but rather merely a blow for blow defense.
[May 26, 2006, 17:50]
Managed Public Key Infrastructure: Securing Your Business Applications
White Papers Although not extremely rare, they are far less common than the traditional DDoS attack method. Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are quite common on the Internet today. Often the attack can be thwarted with appropriate countermeasures or...
[August 4, 2006, 1:00]
Rule-Based Defense Mechanism Against Distributed Denial-of-Service Attacks
White Papers The latest DDoS attack has the property of swift propagation speed and various attack patterns. Since the number of damage cases resulting from Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks has recently been increasing, the need for agile detection...
[October 2, 2009, 1:23]
