The man suspected of participating in a large DDoS attack on an anti-spam organisation that caused intermittent Internet hiccups drove …
Dutchman arrested in connection with large DDoS attack on Spamhaus
A 35-year-old Dutchman was arrested Thursday in Spain, as part of an investigation into a large-scale DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attack …
Anonymous performs DDoS attack on Formula 1
Hacker group Anonymous on Saturday made the Formula One its latest victim when it performed a DDoS (distributed denial of …
Bitcoin exchange hit with DDoS attack
Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox faced a distributed denial-of-service attack late Thursday, at a time the digital currency is seeing an …
Massive DDoS overhyped by media, says website watcher
Much of the news reporting about the massive denial-of-service attack against anti-spam service Spamhaus over the past week or so …
Mega DDoS attacks on the rise – Kaspersky
DDoS attacks like the one that resulted from an altercation between a Dutch company and Spamhaus this week are on …
Gartner: Application-based DDoS attacks on the rise
According to a new report from Gartner, hackers are adapting distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks and combining these with …
DDoS bank attacks signal new era of cyber warfare
Cyber attacks on U.S. banks over the last several months reflect a frightening new era in cyber warfare, according to …
Is Iran really behind recent stream of DDoS bank attacks?
Though U.S. officials have consistently blamed Iran for the ongoing stream of distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS) against major …
HSBC restores websites after major DDoS assault
HSBC has restored access to several of the company’s most important websites rendered inaccessible for ten hours by what is …
Expert fingers DDoS toolkit used in bank cyber attacks
Cyber attackers who disrupted the websites of U.S. banks over the last two weeks used a highly sophisticated toolkit — …
Russian 'cyber-bandits' arrested for Amazon DDoS attacks
A Russian accused of being behind DDoS attacks carried out on Amazon and other US sites in 2008 has been …
3 steps to dodge the DDoS bullet
It is an all-too-common headline: Prominent website brought down by attackers. The backstory to this growing threat to business is a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS).
Fortinet launches product family to combat DDoS attacks
Network security firm Fortinet today introduced the FortiDDoS product family for enterprises, web hosting and cloud service providers. The new …
Financial services under more frequent DDOS attacks
The financial services industry saw nearly triple the number of distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks during the first three months of …
“Anonymous” arrests tied to PayPal DDoS attacks, FBI says
The FBI said this afternoon that it had arrested a total of 14 individuals thought to belong to the Anonymous …
DDoS attacks, network hacks rampant in oil and gas industry
Massive denial-of-service attacks and "stealthy infiltration" of corporate networks by attackers is a common experience for companies in critical infrastructure …
DDoS attacks, network hacks rampant in oil and gas industry
Massive denial-of-service attacks and “stealthy infiltration” of corporate networks by attackers is a common experience for companies in critical infrastructure …
Chinese human rights sites hit by DDoS attack
Five Web sites run by Chinese human rights activists were attacked by hackers over the weekend, as a separate row …
As DDoS attacks go, this one's a dud
With all due respect to the affected holiday shoppers in Northern California, yesterday’s distributed denial-of-service attack on Amazon, Wal-Mart, and …