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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]
Georgian President Suffers Cyberattack
News The website of the Georgian president was the subject of a distributed-denial-of-service attack over the weekend. For over 24 hours the website of President Mikhail Saakashvili of Georgia.has been rendered unavailable due to a multi-pronged...
[July 21, 2008, 17:12]
Two Europeans Indicted For US Cyberattacks
News Two Europeans, one of whom is English, have been indicted by a US federal grand jury in connection with a 2003 distributed denial-of-service attack that is the focus of a major FBI investigation. The two men, who are not in custody, were indicted...
[October 6, 2008, 13:23]
Florida Man Charged In Botnet Attack On Akamai
News A Florida man has been charged with launching a distributed denial-of-service attack against servers run by Akamai Technologies. This distributed denial-of-service attack, launched 15 June, 2004, rendered many of Akamai's clients' websites...
[October 25, 2006, 16:40]
Experts Warn Of Multiple Computer Attacks
News A distributed denial of service attack forces a Web server or similar computer system offline by overwhelming it with fake traffic from many remotely controlled, or "zombie", computers. The danger of a mass Web attack may have been underestimated...
[October 4, 2000, 14:14]
New Shield Repelled Internet Backbone Attack
News The distributed denial-of-service attack on the Domain Name System (DNS) proved the effectiveness of the Anycast load-balancing system, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) said in a document published on Thursday.
[March 12, 2007, 8:24]
Explaining The Estonian Cyberattacks
News A distributed denial-of-service, or DDoS, attack occurs when hundreds or thousands of compromised computers are enlisted. The event also marked the beginning of a large and sustained distributed denial-of-service attack on several Estonian national...
[May 30, 2007, 15:34]
Distributed Attack Threat Looms On The Horizon
News Malevolent computer crackers may be preparing the ground for distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks that would pose a serious threat to major Web sites and to the infrastructure of the Internet.
[September 18, 2000, 9:52]
How The Cyber Vandals Zapped Yahoo!
News A denial of service attack is a form of cyber attack that blocks Internet traffic from reaching a particular company or Internet service. A garden-variety denial of service attack uses a single server to attempt to tie up a network's connection...
[February 8, 2000, 8:14]
Managed Public Key Infrastructure: Securing Your Business Applications
White Papers Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are quite common on the Internet today. Recently there has been an increase in the number of attacks using a less common, but well known, technique known as Distributed Reflector Denial of Service (DRDoS...
[August 4, 2006, 1:00]
Experts Warn Of New-style Cyber Attack
News A garden-variety denial-of-service attack uses a single server to attempt to tie up a network's connection, denying its users access to or from the Internet. Known as "distributed co-ordinated attacks," this new style is particularly good at...
[October 20, 1999, 10:45]
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]
Black Frog Hops Into Spam Battle
News But the Web sites of Blue Security and some of the company's partners were knocked out last month by a massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. First there was Blue Frog, a community antispam effort that stopped operating last week...
[May 25, 2006, 10:25]
New Denial Of Service Menace Uncovered
News The distributed denial of service attack first emerged in February when it was used to render some of the world's largest Web sites, including CNN, Amazon and eBay inaccessible. A denial of service attack involves bombarding a computer with an...
[June 9, 2000, 11:58]
Lycos Should Send Its Zombie Army Home
Leader Lycos defends its action by saying that what it is doing is not a denial-of-service attack, but an attack on the bandwidth of the spammers. Regardless of the semantics of whether what Lycos is doing really is a denial-of-service attack, when you...
[December 1, 2004, 12:25]
Symbiot Launches DDoS Counter-strike Tool
News Symbiot, a Texas-based security firm, is preparing to launch a corporate defence system at the end of March that can fight back against distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) and hacker attacks by launching a counter-strike.
[March 10, 2004, 14:15]
Web Bookies Demand Higher Security Standards
News Online gambling companies are urging ISPs to do more to prevent hackers disabling computers with distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Criminal hackers use distributed denial-of-service attacks to flood their target servers with so much...
[April 5, 2005, 16:55]
A Year Ago: Denial Of Service Attacks Loom In GM Food Protest
News The technique sounds similar to the "distributed" Denial of Service method developed to attack some of the largest Internet sites in the world last month. In the paper, the group speculated that the recent spate of distributed Denial of Service...
[March 16, 2001, 6:03]
Denial Of Service Attacks Loom In GM Food Protest
News The technique sounds similar to the "distributed" Denial of Service method developed to attack some of the largest Internet sites in the world last month. In the paper, the group speculated that the recent spate of distributed Denial of Service...
[March 16, 2000, 16:27]
Net Attack Flops, But Threat Persists
News In addition, locating the perpetrators will be difficult because the type of attack they used -- known as a distributed denial-of-service attack -- typically mask the origins of the assault. Beginning on Monday, a flood of data bombarded the...
[October 24, 2002, 9:42]
