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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]
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]
High-Speed Router Filter For Blocking TCP Flooding Under DDoS Attack
White Papers This paper presents a hardware solution that can reliably block most of the malicious TCP traffic at the edge routers while passing the legitimate TCP traffic during the Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack.
[January 14, 2008, 23:00]
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 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]
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
News At this stage no statement has been made from the operator of the service, but the industry speculates the service may come back in a different form when DDoS attacks from spammers have subsided. Osirusoft, one of the largest anti-spam blacklists...
[August 27, 2003, 11:00]
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]
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]
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, 0:00]
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]
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]
11,000 IP Addresses Found On Accused Hacker's PC
News More than 11,000 IP addresses of vulnerable servers were found on the computer of a UK teenager that has been accused of launching a DDoS attack responsible for knocking out IT systems at the Port of Houston in Texas, Southwark Crown Court was...
[October 8, 2003, 16:20]
Experts Warn Of Multiple Computer Attacks
News Although another major DDoS attack has yet to materialise, there are many who believe that another attack is just around the corner. There have been numerous reports and warnings in recent weeks concerning machines being taken over for the...
[October 4, 2000, 14:14]
Hackers Shy Away From DDoS Attacks
News A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack uses a network of compromised computers, known as a botnet, to send a large number of packets to a site, causing its server to fall over. However, DDoS attacks are becoming less frequent because of...
[May 3, 2007, 12:52]
Virtual Girlfriend 'inspired Internet Attack'
News The prosecution argues that Aaron Caffrey launched a distributed denial of service attack (DDoS) in reaction to what he perceived as criticisms of his girlfriend, Jessica. Caffrey argues that the log files were altered or planted on his computer by...
[October 10, 2003, 17:55]
