Slashdot Items Tagged "ddos"

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Tuesday February 06, 2024 @06:19PM 3 Million Malware-Infected Smart Toothbrushes Used In Swiss DDoS Attacks [UPDATE]
Saturday January 13, 2024 @12:24AM Ukrainian Hacker Group Takes Down Moscow ISP As a Revenge For Kyivstar Cyber Attack
Wednesday June 28, 2023 @04:45PM Microsoft's GitHub Under Fire For DDoSing Crucial Open Source Project Website
Monday June 19, 2023 @01:52PM Microsoft Says Early June Disruptions To Outlook, Cloud Platform, Were Cyberattacks
Monday May 08, 2023 @08:43PM Feds Seize 13 More DDoS-For-Hire Platforms In Ongoing International Crackdown
Wednesday April 12, 2023 @05:47PM DDoS Attacks Shifting To VPS Infrastructure For Increased Power
Friday March 31, 2023 @10:50PM German Police Raid DDoS-Friendly Host 'FlyHosting'
Tuesday March 28, 2023 @07:55PM UK Sets Up Fake Booter Sites To Muddy DDoS Market
Tuesday January 10, 2023 @09:22AM Protect Your Organization From DDoS Attack
Thursday December 15, 2022 @01:59PM Prosecutors Charge 6 People for Allegedly Waging Massive DDoS Attacks
Friday January 28, 2022 @02:05PM Microsoft Fends Off Record-Breaking 3.47Tbps DDoS Attack
Wednesday January 26, 2022 @05:18PM North Korean Internet Downed By Suspected Cyber Attacks
Tuesday August 17, 2021 @03:41PM Firewalls and Middleboxes Can Be Weaponized For Gigantic DDoS Attacks
Tuesday May 04, 2021 @03:24PM Belgium's Government Network Goes Down After Massive DDoS Attack
Wednesday March 17, 2021 @07:06PM 4,300 Publicly Reachable Servers Are Posing a New DDoS Hazard To the Internet
Friday January 22, 2021 @03:37PM As Bitcoin Price Surges, DDoS Extortion Gangs Return in Force
Monday October 19, 2020 @05:37PM QAnon/8Chan Sites Back Online After Being Ousted By DDoS-Protection Vendor
Wednesday August 26, 2020 @12:08PM New Zealand Stock Exchange Halted by Cyber-Attack
Friday June 19, 2020 @06:25PM Academics Studied DDoS Takedowns and Said They're Ineffective, Recommend Patching Vulnerable Servers
Wednesday June 17, 2020 @03:58PM AWS Said It Mitigated a 2.3 Tbps DDoS Attack, the Largest Ever
Thursday December 05, 2019 @05:50PM China Resurrects Great Cannon For DDoS Attacks On Hong Kong Forum
Friday November 22, 2019 @06:11PM Anonymous Hacker Gets Six Years In Prison For DDoS Attacks
Thursday October 24, 2019 @03:47PM A DDoS Gang is Extorting Businesses Posing as Russian Government Hackers
Friday October 04, 2019 @04:28PM macOS Systems Can Be Abused In DDoS Attacks
Friday July 05, 2019 @04:08PM Tor Project To Fix Bug Used For DDoS Attacks On Onion Sites For Years
Wednesday June 12, 2019 @10:37AM Telegram's Description of DDoS Attack is the Best
Tuesday April 09, 2019 @06:22PM New Variants of Mirai Botnet Detected, Targeting More IoT Devices
Sunday January 13, 2019 @12:55AM Aaron Swartz's Federal Judge Gives Anonymous Hacker 10 Years In Prison For DDoS Attacks On Children's Hospitals
Thursday December 20, 2018 @06:08PM FBI Shuts Down 15 DDoS-For-Hire Sites
Saturday September 22, 2018 @11:34PM Judge Orders Cloudflare To Turn Over Identifying Data In Copyright Case
Thursday September 20, 2018 @05:44PM Crippling DDoS Vulnerability Put the Entire Bitcoin Market At Risk
Thursday June 28, 2018 @11:09AM What's Up With ProtonMail Outages?
Friday May 04, 2018 @12:36PM Cyberattack Crashes Tennessee County's Website on Election Night
Wednesday April 25, 2018 @12:02PM Europol Shuts Down World's Largest DDoS-for-Hire Service
Sunday March 04, 2018 @02:45PM GitHub Survived the Biggest DDoS Attack Ever Recorded
Friday February 02, 2018 @07:05PM Cloudflare Is Liable For Pirate Sites and Has No Safe Harbor, Publisher Says
Friday November 10, 2017 @03:12PM Man Who Sent GIF Of Laughing Mouse to Employer After DDoS Attack Is Now Arrested
Saturday November 04, 2017 @12:46AM A Third of the Internet Experienced DoS Attacks in the Last Two Years
Saturday October 21, 2017 @09:52AM A Gigantic IoT Botnet Has Grown in the Shadows in the Past Month
Monday September 25, 2017 @03:43PM DDoS Attacks Will Now Be 'Something You Only Read About In The History Books', Says Cloudflare CEO
Wednesday August 16, 2017 @06:02PM Cloudflare Stops Supporting Neo-Nazi Site The Daily Stormer
Wednesday August 02, 2017 @05:52PM Man Used DDoS Attacks On Media To Extort Them To Remove Stories
Monday July 31, 2017 @04:00PM FCC Says Its Specific Plan To Stop DDoS Attacks Must Remain Secret
Monday June 26, 2017 @05:30PM $1 Million Ransomware Payment Has Spurred New DDoS-for-Bitcoin Attacks
Thursday June 01, 2017 @03:32AM Democrats Ask FBI To Probe Reported FCC Cyberattack
Tuesday May 09, 2017 @08:49PM FCC Should Prove DDoS Attacks Stopped Net Neutrality Comments
Wednesday April 26, 2017 @07:02PM Hacking Group Is "Charging" German Companies €250 for "DDoS Tests"
Wednesday April 26, 2017 @07:01PM Hacking Group Is Charging German Companies $275 For 'DDoS Tests'
Thursday March 02, 2017 @03:30PM AI Scientists Gather to Plot Doomsday Scenarios
Friday February 24, 2017 @04:50PM World's Largest Spam Botnet Adds DDoS Feature
Friday February 24, 2017 @11:12AM World's Largest Spam Botnet Adds DDoS Feature
Thursday February 23, 2017 @04:58PM UK Police Arrest Suspect Behind Mirai Malware Attacks on Deutsche Telekom
Tuesday February 14, 2017 @04:44PM University DDoSed By Its Own IoT Devices
Tuesday February 14, 2017 @04:34PM University DDoSed by Its Own IoT Devices
Monday January 23, 2017 @08:41PM Hacker Group Claims Responsibility for Lloyds Bank Outages, Ransom Demand
Wednesday December 28, 2016 @01:59PM Bigger Than Mirai: Leet Botnet Delivers 650 Gbps DDoS Attack
Saturday December 10, 2016 @12:28AM A 'Turkish Hacker' Is Giving Out Prizes For DDoS Attacks
Tuesday November 15, 2016 @12:15PM Experts Say Internet 'Mega' Attacks Are on the Rise
Friday November 11, 2016 @10:58AM Russian Banks Floored by Withering DDoS Attacks
Wednesday November 09, 2016 @08:49PM iOS WebView Bug Can Force iPhones To Make Calls While UI Freezes
Tuesday November 08, 2016 @06:03PM 4chan May Have Brought Down Pro-Clinton Phone Lines Before Election Day
Tuesday November 08, 2016 @10:28AM DDoS Attack Halts Heating in Finland Amidst Winter
Wednesday November 02, 2016 @03:25PM Another Internet Outage Takes Down Services in US and UK
Wednesday October 26, 2016 @05:08PM How Vigilante Hackers Could Stop the Internet of Things Botnet
Monday October 24, 2016 @12:18AM Slashdot Asks: How Can We Prevent Packet-Flooding DDOS Attacks?
Sunday October 23, 2016 @12:09AM Dyn Executive Responds To Friday's DDOS Attack
Saturday October 22, 2016 @02:07PM John McAfee Thinks North Korea Hacked Dyn, and Iran Hacked the DNC
Friday October 21, 2016 @09:06PM WikiLeaks To Its Supporters: 'Stop Taking Down the US Internet, You Proved Your Point'
Friday October 21, 2016 @05:39PM Mirai and Bashlight Join Forces Against DNS Provider Dyn
Friday October 21, 2016 @03:51PM Amid Major Internet Outages, Affected Websites Have Lessons To Learn
Wednesday October 05, 2016 @06:08PM 53% of DDoS Attacks Result In Additional Compromise, Says Neustar
Monday October 03, 2016 @09:59AM Source Code For IoT Botnet 'Mirai' Which Took Down Krebs On Security Website With DDoS Attack Released
Tuesday September 27, 2016 @04:42PM OVH Hosting Suffers From Record 1Tbps DDoS Attack Driven By 150K Devices
Friday September 23, 2016 @11:37PM Why the Silencing of KrebsOnSecurity Opens a Troubling Chapter For the Internet
Wednesday September 14, 2016 @02:20PM Someone Is Learning How To Take Down the Internet, Warns Bruce Schneier
Tuesday September 13, 2016 @10:28AM US 911 Emergency System Can Be Crippled By a Mobile Botnet
Sunday September 11, 2016 @07:55AM IoT Devices With Default Telnet Passwords Used As Botnet
Saturday September 10, 2016 @09:08PM Alleged Proprietors of 'DDOS For Hire' Service vDOS Arrested
Thursday September 08, 2016 @04:50PM Israeli DDoS Provider 'vDOS' Earned $600,000 In Two Years
Tuesday September 06, 2016 @01:43AM 'Catastrophic' DDoS Attack Hits Linode Servers Over Labor Day Weekend
Monday September 05, 2016 @07:05PM "Catastrophic" DDoS Attack Hits Linode Over The Weekend - Data Breach Again?
Friday September 02, 2016 @06:22PM Hackers Combine Three Botnets to Launch Massive DDoS Attack
Saturday August 20, 2016 @08:50PM New Linux Trojan Is A DDoS Tool, a Bitcoin Miner, and Web Ransomware
Saturday August 20, 2016 @03:47PM New Linux Trojan Is All-Around Threat: DDoS Tool, Bitcoin Miner, Web Ransomware
Thursday August 18, 2016 @06:31PM 'Smart' Electrical Socket Leaks Your Email Address, Can Launch DDoS Attacks
Sunday August 14, 2016 @10:44PM Internal 'Set Of Blunders' Crashed Australia's Census Site
Friday August 12, 2016 @05:43PM DDoSCoin: New Crypto-Currency Rewards Users For Participating In DDoS Attacks
Friday August 12, 2016 @05:31PM DDoSCoin: New Crypto-Currency Rewards Users for Participating in DDoS Attacks
Tuesday August 09, 2016 @07:10PM Australian Census Website Shut Down On Census Night After 4 DDoS Attacks
Thursday August 04, 2016 @06:25PM Pokemon Go DDoS Attacks Postponed As PoodleCorp Botnet Suffers Security Breach
Monday July 18, 2016 @05:03PM Hacking Group 'OurMine' Claims Credit For Attack On Pokemon Go Servers
Monday June 27, 2016 @05:57PM A Massive Botnet of CCTV Cameras Involved In Ferocious DDoS Attacks
Monday June 20, 2016 @11:07AM Hacker Taunts Blizzard After Knocking Gamers Offline
Monday May 30, 2016 @06:54PM Microsoft Warns of ZCryptor Ransomware With Self-Propagation Features
Saturday May 28, 2016 @03:48PM Fiverr Suffers Six-Hour DDoS Attack After Removing DDoS-For-Hire Listings
Thursday May 26, 2016 @06:12PM Anonymous Hackers Turned Stock Analysts Are Targeting US, Chinese Corporations
Saturday May 21, 2016 @07:22PM Ransomware Adds DDoS Attacks To Annoy More People
Saturday May 21, 2016 @05:51PM Ransomware Adds DDoS Capabilities to Annoy Other People, Not Just You
Friday May 20, 2016 @08:37PM DARPA Extreme DDOS Project Transforming Network Attack Mitigation
Wednesday May 11, 2016 @07:09PM Pornhub Launches Bug Bounty Program With Rewards Up To $25,000
Thursday April 28, 2016 @06:59PM Dissension Grows Inside Anonymous Because Of Political Propaganda
Tuesday April 26, 2016 @09:57AM Businesses Pay $100,000 To DDoS Extortionists Who Never DDoS Anyone
Wednesday March 30, 2016 @06:12AM Repeated DDoS Attacks Force Coinkite Bitcoin Wallet To Close Down Web Service
Wednesday March 30, 2016 @01:47AM Repeated DDoS Attacks Force Coinkite Bitcoin Wallet to Close Down Web Service
Thursday March 24, 2016 @03:19PM U.S. Indicts 7 Iranians Accused of Hacking U.S. Financial Institutions
Monday March 21, 2016 @01:53AM Unprecedented DDoS Attack At Swedish Government, Media Outlets
Friday March 18, 2016 @04:45AM Malware's Botnet Abused to Launch DDoS Attacks
Wednesday March 16, 2016 @05:04PM 5 Major Hospital Hacks: Horror Stories From the Cybersecurity Frontlines
Monday March 14, 2016 @04:17PM Anonymous Declare 'Total War' On Donald Trump, Threaten To 'Dismantle His Campaign'
Saturday March 12, 2016 @03:14AM 600,000 TFTP Servers Can Be Abused For Reflection DDoS Attacks
Friday March 11, 2016 @12:43PM Hackers Completely Shut Down DDoS Protection Firm Staminus
Thursday March 10, 2016 @04:09PM Cisco Patches Serious Flaws In Cable Modems and Home Gateways
Thursday February 25, 2016 @09:40AM Google Releases Project Shield To Fight Against DDoS Attacks
Tuesday January 12, 2016 @09:33AM Members of DD4BC Arrested by Europol for Blackmailing Companies with DDoS Attack
Friday December 25, 2015 @06:35PM Pwnd Aethra Routers Used To Brute-Force WordPress Sites
Thursday December 24, 2015 @05:27PM PhantomSquad Hackers Begin Their Xmas DDoS Attacks By Taking Down EA Servers
Thursday December 24, 2015 @12:47PM PhantomSquad Hackers Begin Their Xmas DDoS Attacks by Taking Down EA Servers
Wednesday December 16, 2015 @10:13AM LizardSquad Copycats Planning DDoS Attacks on Xbox & PSN for Christmas
Saturday December 12, 2015 @10:26AM Anonymous Goes After Donald Trump
Wednesday November 11, 2015 @02:56PM Webmail Services Struggling Against DDoS Attacks
Tuesday November 10, 2015 @11:45AM ProtonMail Restores Services After Epic DDoS Attacks
Thursday October 29, 2015 @08:41AM MySQL Servers Hijacked With Malware To Perform DDoS Attacks
Saturday October 10, 2015 @12:25PM Cloud DDoS Mitigation Services Can Be Bypassed by Aiming Attacks at Website's IP
Thursday September 24, 2015 @08:35AM Imgur Exploited To Channel Botnet Attacks At 4chan
Tuesday September 08, 2015 @10:54AM Hacking Medical Mannequins
Thursday August 20, 2015 @08:34AM BitTorrent Clients Can Be Made To Participate In High-Volume DoS Attacks
Monday April 27, 2015 @11:02AM Indian Telecom Authority Releases a Million Email IDs, Taken Down By Hackers
Tuesday April 14, 2015 @01:32PM Turkish Hackers Target Vatican Website After Pope's Genocide Comment
Friday January 16, 2015 @08:28PM 19,000 French Websites Hit By DDoS, Defaced In Wake of Terror Attacks
Thursday January 01, 2015 @02:08PM Finnish KRP Questions Suspected Lizard Squad Member
Tuesday December 30, 2014 @11:53AM Lizard Squad: Xbox Live, PSN Attacks Were a 'Marketing Scheme' For DDoS Service
Monday December 29, 2014 @01:53PM FBI Allegedly Investigating Lizard Squad Member Over Xbox Live, PSN Attacks
Sunday December 28, 2014 @01:17PM Sony PlayStation Network Back Up Now, Supposedly
Thursday December 25, 2014 @05:10PM Xbox Live and PlayStation Networks Downed By Apparent Attack
Wednesday September 03, 2014 @12:04PM Akamai Warns: Linux Systems Infiltrated and Controlled In a DDoS Botnet
Monday July 28, 2014 @12:18PM Attackers Install DDoS Bots On Amazon Cloud
Tuesday March 04, 2014 @02:17PM In Ukraine, Cyber War With Russia Heating Up
Wednesday February 12, 2014 @11:59AM More Bitcoin Exchanges Forced Out of Sync After Massive DDoS Attack
Monday February 10, 2014 @11:49PM DDoS Larger Than the Spamhaus Attack Strikes US and Europe
Wednesday February 05, 2014 @09:18AM Britain's GCHQ Attacked Anonymous Supporters With DDoS
Wednesday December 04, 2013 @11:42AM Anonymous Member Sentenced For Joining DDoS Attack For One Minute
Wednesday November 27, 2013 @10:47AM Spamhaus Calls for Fining Operators of Insecure Servers
Thursday August 08, 2013 @06:54AM Zimbabweans Hit By Cyber Attacks During Election
Wednesday July 17, 2013 @12:51PM Network Solutions Hit With DDoS
Wednesday July 03, 2013 @06:48PM Skype Overload Interrupts Zimmerman Trial
Wednesday April 17, 2013 @12:16PM Average DDoS Attack Bandwidth Jumps Eight-Fold In One Quarter
Friday March 29, 2013 @10:51PM Is Eccentric Sven Olaf Kamphius To Blame For Spamhaus DDoS?
Friday March 29, 2013 @10:34PM After attack on Spamhaus almost brings web to its knees, shadowy figure emerges
Friday March 29, 2013 @03:37AM Did the Spamhaus DDos really slow down global Internet access?
Thursday March 28, 2013 @03:38PM Misconfigured Open DNS Resolvers Key To Massive DDoS Attacks
Thursday March 28, 2013 @01:27PM Spamhaus Attack: Did Biggest Cyber-Attack in History Really Break the Internet?
Thursday March 28, 2013 @10:02AM DDoS Feud Backfires: Bulletproof CyberBunker Busted
Wednesday March 27, 2013 @09:53AM Largest DDoS In History Reaches 300 Billion Bits Per Second
Wednesday March 20, 2013 @08:32AM Krebs Hacker Unmasked, Hit Ars and Wired's Honan
Thursday January 24, 2013 @04:30PM UK Anonymous Hacktivists Get Jail Time
Thursday January 24, 2013 @01:24PM UK Anonymous Hacktivists Get Jail Time
Friday December 28, 2012 @07:47PM New Android Malware Uses Google Play Icon To Trick Users
Friday December 28, 2012 @07:34PM McAfee Labs Predicts Decline of Anonymous
Tuesday December 25, 2012 @02:14PM You're Being DDOSed - What Do You Do? Name And Shame?
Thursday December 13, 2012 @04:58PM Islamic Hacker Group Resumes Attacks On Banks
Monday September 10, 2012 @04:06PM GoDaddy Goes Down, Anonymous Claims Responsibility
Monday September 10, 2012 @03:01PM GoDaddy Goes Down, Anonymous Claims Responsibility
Wednesday August 15, 2012 @02:49PM Mountain Dew "Dub the Dew" promo pulled due to hacking and internet shenanigans
Wednesday August 08, 2012 @10:37AM Wikileaks DDoSed Again
Wednesday August 08, 2012 @07:30AM WikiLeaks Under DDoS Again
Thursday August 02, 2012 @10:27AM Demonoid Down For a Week, Serving Malware Laden Ads
Monday July 09, 2012 @02:27PM End of the line for Spamcop?
Friday June 08, 2012 @03:40AM George Takei Facebook Fans in 'DDoS Attack' on His Own Website
Thursday May 17, 2012 @03:11PM The Pirate Bay Returns, Anonymous Hater Takes Credit For DDoS
Wednesday May 16, 2012 @01:55PM The Pirate Bay Suffering Global Outage From Massive DDoS Attack
Wednesday May 16, 2012 @11:40AM Pirate Bay Under DDoS Attack From Anonymous?
Wednesday May 16, 2012 @09:15AM Pirate Bay Under DDoS Attack From Unknown Enemy
Thursday May 10, 2012 @08:33AM Pirate Bay Criticizes Anonymous' Attack On Virgin
Thursday May 03, 2012 @07:27AM British Cyber Crime Agency Forced Down By Attack
Monday April 09, 2012 @06:35PM Ask Slashdot: Experience Handling DDoS Attacks On a Mid-Tier Site?
Sunday April 08, 2012 @06:37AM Anonymous Hacks UK Government Sites Over 'Draconian Surveillance'
Tuesday March 27, 2012 @01:41PM Political Party's Leadership Election Attacked by DDoS
Tuesday March 13, 2012 @07:02AM How To Crash the US Justice System: Demand a Trial
Monday February 27, 2012 @12:38PM Vatican Attack Provides Insight into Anonymous
Monday February 20, 2012 @03:05PM LOIC DDoS Attack Tool Goes Mobile to Android
Thursday February 16, 2012 @11:14PM DDoS attackers start targeting IPv6 networks
Wednesday February 15, 2012 @11:49AM NASDAQ and BATS DDoSed
Tuesday February 14, 2012 @01:19PM Did Anonymous Take Down CIA.gov?
Saturday January 21, 2012 @07:32AM Downloads of DoS Attack Tool LOIC Spike
Friday January 20, 2012 @06:02PM Downloads of LOIC DoS Attack Tool Spike
Thursday December 29, 2011 @09:52AM Microsoft Issuing Unusual Out-of-Band Security Update
Thursday December 29, 2011 @09:41AM Microsoft Issuing Emergency Security Update Thurs.
Wednesday December 28, 2011 @06:15PM Hash Table Bug Enables Wide-Scale DDoS Attacks
Thursday December 15, 2011 @11:21AM Feds Arrest GeneSimmons.Com Attacker
Tuesday December 13, 2011 @07:38PM How To Deny DDoS Attacks
Sunday December 04, 2011 @02:01PM Russian Websites Critical of Elections Targeted In DDoS Attack
Sunday December 04, 2011 @10:14AM In Soviet Russia DDOS The Opposition?
Thursday December 01, 2011 @06:00PM Bank Accounts Vulnerable For Victims of ZeuS Trojan Variant 'Gameover'
Thursday November 24, 2011 @10:40PM 2011's largest DDOS so far: 45Gbps
Friday September 09, 2011 @08:57PM Aussie Blogger Hit With DDoS Death Threats
Thursday September 01, 2011 @09:44AM Anonymous Claims Responsibility For WikiLeaks Attack
Monday August 01, 2011 @06:44PM UK Police Charge Suspected Anonymous Spokesman
Wednesday July 27, 2011 @09:25AM House Websites Jammed After Obama Debt Speech
Saturday June 25, 2011 @07:33PM Head of ChronoPay Arrested In Moscow
Tuesday June 21, 2011 @07:32AM Network Solutions DNS Hosting Down