Hiroyuki Inoue, associate professor at Hiroshima City University’s Graduate School of Information Sciences in Japan showed how an app and a custom...
A UK company which helps consumers and small businesses create websites and online stores has taken itself and its customers' sites offline,...
Some unknown cyber criminals have attacked a publicly funded network “Janet” which was used by many universities throughout the United Kingdom. On...
nternet core infrastructure hit in rare cyber-attack.Unknown parties carried out a large-scale DDoS attack on the Internet’s DNS root servers, causing slight...
The internet’s root servers came under a concerted distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack last week that effectively knocked three of the...
Google got accidentally DDoSed by an unnamed European network carrier, sending its cloud service offline on the old continent for about an...
A 15-year-old guy in Plymouth has been arrested by British police on the charges of launching DDoS attacks and for sending false bomb...
Every once in a while we get a glimpse into rare and strange behavior that doesn’t involve the website being hacked, but...
Although it's far from always possible to determine the perpetrators of a denial-of-service attack and bring them to justice, there are plenty...
One of the Internet’s oldest and crudest attacks experiences a resurgence. A number of sites have been hit by distributed denial-of-service attacks...
The premium email provider FastMail has revealed that a cybercriminal has launched multiple DDoS attacks on its systems and made a ransom...
Short Bytes: DDoS attacks are targeting the networks and websites all over the world relentlessly. In the past three mnths, there has...
In 2014, a team of privacy advocates launched ProtonMail and claimed that it’s an NSA-proof email service. The service was such a massive hit...
After experiencing an onslaught of DDoS attacks, which saw it hand over the ransom that was demanded, ProtonMail has once again been...
Follow-on attacks show capabilities “commonly possessed by state-sponsored actors.” A provider of end-to-end encrypted e-mail said it paid a ransom of almost...
Cyber-security vendors are revealing their statistics for the third quarter (Q3) of 2015, and a popular topic is DDoS attacks, a tactic...
Experts at Symantec have discovered a new variant of the Chikdos DDoS-Trojan that is targeting MySQL servers worldwide. There is a malware...
Researchers have found out that hackers took over around 900 CCTV cameras with weak login credentials and used them as a DDosS...
An alert from Carnegie Mellon University CERT database reveals how Android devices are affected by LTE security flaw and use for DDoS...
Threat actors are using a previously discovered distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack tool dubbed XOR DDoS to launch upwards of 20 DoS attacks...
Short Bytes: As more and more Linux systems are going online, the threat to the once-secure Linux systems is increasing. In a...