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- Two Europeans indicted for US cyberattacks
- The indictments are part of the FBI's Operation Cyberslam, said to be the US's first successful investigation into a large-scale, commercially motivated denial-of-service attack 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...
- Tags: FBI, Cyberattack, Distributed Denial Of Service, Attack, Operation Cyberslam, Gembe, Federal Government, Government, security, botnet, cybercrime, DOS, attacks, Matthew Broersma, ZDNet.co.uk
- News items 2008-10-06
- Norwegian BitTorrent tracker under DDoS attack
- Norwegian BitTorrent tracker under DDoS attackIt begs the Rodney King question..."Can't we all just get along?"Isn't the bleeding internet big enough for everyone to do their thing?
- Tags: Norwegian BitTorrent, distributed denial of service
- Discussion threads 2008-09-19
- Norwegian BitTorrent tracker under DDoS attack
- Norway's largest BitTorrent tracker Norbits (norbits.net) with approximately 10,000 users, is currently under a DDoS attack launched from a group known as MORRADi, which is also speculating that it has managed to compromise the tracker and is threatening to release personal details of its users including IPs, until the tracker...
- Tags: BitTorrent, P2P, Distributed Denial Of Service, Peer To Peer (P2P), Security, Internet, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-09-18
- DDoS + Web 2.0 == Buckets o' traffic
- Denial of Service attacks are based upon a simple idea: generate the maximum amount of traffic using the minimum amount of work. At one time this was as simple as sending a spoofed ICMP echo packet to a broadcast address or similar shenanigans. Modern DDoS attacks rely upon...
- Tags: Web, Web 2.0, Network, Distributed Denial Of Service, Social Networking, Security, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Adam O\'Donnell
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- Coordinated Russia vs Georgia cyber attack in progress
- In the wake of the Russian-Georgian conflict, a week worth of speculations around Russian Internet forums have finally materialized into a coordinated cyber attack against Georgia's Internet infrastructure. The attacks have already managed to compromise several government web sites, with continuing DDoS attacks against numerous other Georgian government sites, prompting...
- Tags: Web, Russia, Web Site, Site, Cyberattack, Distributed Denial Of Service, Georgia, Attack, Alania TV, RIA Novosti, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Security, Internet, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-08-11
- Georgia President's web site under DDoS attack from Russian hackers
- Georgia President's web site under DDoS attack from Russian hackersOh, its about the *another* Georgia.Is about the ex-commie Georgia and not the Ted Turner Birthplace.Anyways, a ddos attack can be done even for a single person, so there are not a real point to escalate this conflict in a full...
- Tags: Web site development, distributed denial of service, Russian Hackers, Web site, Web
- Discussion threads 2008-07-23
- Georgia President's web site under DDoS attack from Russian hackers
- From Russia with political love? It appears so according to a deeper analysis of the command and control servers used by the attackers. During the weekend, Georgia President's web site was under a distributed denial of service attack which managed to take it offline for a couple of hours. The...
- Tags: Web, Russia, Server, Web Site, Hacker, Distributed Denial Of Service, Georgia, Attack, Russian, Shadowserver, C&C, C&C Server, Web Site Development, Security, Internet, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-07-22
- 300 Lithuanian sites hacked by Russian hackers
- A recently accepted legislation in Lithuania banning communist symbols across Lithuania, has prompted Pro-Russian hackers to start defacing Lithuanian sites, an indication of the upcoming attack was detected last week with active discussions around Russian forums greatly reminding us of the Russia vs Estonia cyberattack sparkled due to the removal...
- Tags: Web, Web Site, Hacker, Distributed Denial Of Service, Attack, Hacking, Security, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-07-02
- A security company wants you to DDoS its servers
- A security company wants you to DDoS its serversWhat a JokeI totally agree - Anyone with the capacity to perform DDoS is not gonna give a crap about a $50 gift certificate to think geek.Legal ImplicationsFrom the perspective of US law, it sounds as though they might be solicting others...
- Tags: security, server, distributed denial of service
- Discussion threads 2008-06-19
- A security company wants you to DDoS its servers
- "There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary" - Brendan Behan. Ypigsfly, a company describing itself as a group of seasoned veterans of the Internet network infrastructure business, has just launched Killthisbox.com, a DDoS challenge enticing you to knock down the site for 15 minutes in...
- Tags: Server, Distributed Denial Of Service, Security, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-06-18
- A U.S military botnet in the works
- Make botnets, not war? In April, last year, I asked the question "Why establish an offensive cyber warfare doctrine when you can simple install a type of Lycos Spam Fighting screensaver on every military and government computer and have it periodically update its hit lists?" A year...
- Tags: Distributed Denial Of Service, Military, Attack, U.S, Security, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- Spyware fighter under DDoS attack by DollarRevenue trojan
- Spyware fighter under DDoS attack by DollarRevenue trojanRe: DDOShttp://www.analogstereo.com/maserati_owners_manual.htmRE: Spyware fighter under DDoS attack by DollarRevenue trojanhttp://www.analogstereo.com/maserati_owners_manual.htm
- Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, SECURITY, Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, distributed denial of service, Spyware fighter, DollarRevenue, fighter, trojan horse, spyware
- Discussion threads 2008-05-09
- SlideShare: Another DDoS victim surfaces
- In an email to me, Dancho Danchev reported another victim of the same type of DDoS attack mentioned as hitting CNN. We'll keep our ears open for other instances. The following links to the SlideShare blog which discusses the attack: http://blog.slideshare.net/2008/04/18/slideshare-experiencing-ddos-attack/ ...
- Tags: Victim, Distributed Denial Of Service, Security, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-04-24
- Recent CNN Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack explained
- Recent CNN Distributed Denial of Service DDoS attack explainedyou are racist, period.>> but am I concerned at the apparently large number of pro-China-Americans? You’re damn right I am.>> they also own so many investments in the US, it poses a real threat to our economy.So are you too scared...
- Tags: SECURITY, distributed denial of service, CNN Distributed Denial of Service, attack, CNN, denial of service
- Discussion threads 2008-04-23
- Recent CNN Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack explained
- According to Netcraft: "The CNN News website has twice been affected since an earlier distributed denial of service attack last Thursday. CNN fixed Thursday's attack by limiting the number of users who could access the site from specific geographical areas. Subsequently, an attack was purportedly organised to...
- Tags: Denial Of Service, Distributed Denial Of Service, CNN, Attack, Danchev, Security, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-04-23
- Using social networks for DDoS. Reddit as hacker tool.
- Using social networks for DDoS. Reddit as hacker tool.Variation Of Free SpeechI see this as a bunch of protesters with signs blocking the building.
- Tags: SECURITY, hacker tool, distributed denial of service, Reddit, social networking, network
- Discussion threads 2008-01-21
- Using social networks for DDoS. Reddit as hacker tool.
- Reddit is the hacking playground for today. While Reddit is just barely a "social network" with minor interactions between its members it is a powerful site for spreading the latest cool thing and in recent months has been pretty much taken over by Ron Paul enthusiasts and Fox...
- Tags: Social Networking, Web, Reddit, Network, RIAA, SQL, Distributed Denial Of Service, Tool, Channel Management, Hacking, Web Site Development, Programming Languages, Security, Databases, Viruses And Worms, Marketing, Internet, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Richard Stiennon
- Blog posts 2008-01-20
- Flow-Cookies: Using Bandwidth Amplification to Defend Against DDoS Flooding Attacks
- Distributed Denial-of-Service flooding attacks against public web servers are increasingly common. Websites without the ability to over-provision or rely on a CDN are often overwhelmed by such attacks. Existing proposals to combat flooding within the network either require substantial changes to the Internet infrastructure, or the difficult task of identifying...
- Tags: Stanford University, Distributed Denial Of Service, Attack, Web Servers, Security, Internet
- White papers 2008-01-01
- Programming Routers to Improve Network Security
- Denial of Service DoS attacks represent, in today's Internet, one of the most complex issues to address. This paper presents a novel approach to deal with Distributed DoS DDoS attacks in the Internet. The paper proposes a model for an Active Security System, comprising a number of components that actively...
- Tags: Network, Network Security, Distributed Denial Of Service, Programming, Attack, Internet, Security, Networking
- White papers 2008-01-01
- Anti-DDoS Virtualized Operating System
- It is easier to detect a DDoS attack near the victim but it is of little use to do so. Many researchers believe that it would be best to handle DDoS attacks closer to the computers which host these attacks and have propounded various strategies for packet filtering at edge-routers....
- Tags: Packet, Operating System, Distributed Denial Of Service, Indian Institute Of Technology, Computer, Productivity, Security
- White papers 2007-12-31
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