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...
Tag - denial of service
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...
A recent flaw in the BIND open-source software used for DNS servers allows denial-of-service attacks on both authoritative and recursive DNS servers, by...