A 21-year-old man who made half a million dollars running DDoS-for-hire services has been sentenced to prison for 13 months. Between August 2015 to November...
Tag - denial of service
If you believed all the headlines you would think the problem is more serious than it really is. “Beware the ‘Black Dot of Death’ that will obliterate...
In an entirely new twist on the security of hard disk drives (HDDs), a team of researchers from Princeton and Purdue University have released a paper...
An 18-year-old UK student has been charged by the West Midlands Police with supplying malware and denial-of-service tools to cybercriminals. The criminals...
Ukraine’s Defense Ministry website was taken offline following a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack aimed at rendering it inoperable. While no...
After hacking group Anonymous announced last month it’s planning a wave of cyberattacks on world banks, Bank Indonesia and the Bank of Korea have been...
A week-long DDoS attack targeted DNS provider NS1, aiming systematically at the company’s infrastructure. While the company claims it’s constantly...
Twenty-or-so years ago, Mel Gibson starred in the movie “Ransom”. It was a fun bit of hokum, where he told the people who kidnapped his son that he...
A new type of distributed denial of service attack has recently been reported by CloudFlare, involving the use of mobile advertisement networks and funneling...
A massive Distributed Denial of Service attack by hacker group Lizard Squad has affected daily operations of the U.K.’s National Crime Agency website...