All posts tagged "DDoS"
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2.7KCyber EventsHow can I protect myself from hackers if I want to start a blog?
So, you run the publication’s website or maintain your own blog. You publish what you think is necessary, and someone may not like it. Potentially, your blog is...
- 392Cyber Events
AWS hit by massive DDoS attacks that lasted 8 hours
Under “usual circumstances,” AWS makes headlines for exposing databases of companies using its services. A few days ago (Oct 22, 2019), the...
- 30Data Security
How your work phone could be a huge security threat
You know about cyber security and mobile network vulnerabilities. You’ve heard of DDoS attacks. You might have even moved on from your...
- 57Cyber Crime
Dark web data center in former NATO bunker seized for hosting child porn
Bulletproof hoster not so Bulletproof after all. Authorities in Germany have raided, busted and seized a massive data bunker called “Cyberbunker 2.0”...
- 61DDOS
Wikipedia Hacked – Hackers Take Down the Website with Massive DDOS Attack
Wikipedia Hacked: cybercriminals have launched a massive DDOS attack on Wikipedia and take down the website in several countries in Europe and parts...
- 1.2KData Security
Wikipedia suffers DDoS attack causing worldwide service disruption
The DDoS attack on Wikipedia is first of its kind. The popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia has suffered a DDoS attack over the...
- 62Cyber Events
Website used by Hong Kong protesters suffers DDoS attack
The prime suspect of the DDoS attack is China. An online forum used by activists behind the ongoing Hong Kong protests has...
- 33Data Security
Solving the Cyber Security Problem: Mission Impossible
Why nothing is working in cyber security? Cyber Securities Book of Revelations. I spend a fair amount of time in my current...
- 31DDOS
Massive DDoS Attack on Streaming Service with 292,000 RPS (Requests Per Second) From 402,000 Different Botnet IP’s
An unrevealed streaming site hit with massive DDoS attack from 402,000 different IoT(Internet of Things) Botnet IPs, which directed a peak flow...
- 16News
VLC Media Player Has Critical Security Flaw [Updated: Devs Deny All Claims]
Update VideoLAN has tweeted that the security issue reported by CERT-Bund is not as severe as claimed. VideoLAN says the issue lies...
- 20Geek
Twitter is down – Twitter’s website & app suffering outage (Updated)
As surprising as it may sound, Facebook is up but Twitter is down. The online news and social networking site Twitter is...
- 22News
Tor Project Is Finally Fixing A DDoS Vulnerability In Onion Sites After Years
The Tor Project is finally going to release a fix for a bug that has been plaguing Onion sites for years, making...
- 16News
Man Gets Prison For DDoSing Steam, EA, Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo, DOTA2, Riot Games….
In one of its kind acts, a Utah-based man named Austin Thompson (23) is going to prison for launching DDoS attacks on...
- 25DDOS
Hacker Sentenced 27 months in prison for Launching Massive DDoS Attacks on Sony and Gaming Networks
A man from Utah sentenced 27 months in prison for launching massive DDoS attack against Sony and online gaming companies and its servers....
- 38Cyber Events
Telegram messaging service hit by massive DDoS attack
It is unclear why Telegram was targeted or who was behind the DDoS attack. The popular privacy-focused instant messaging application service Telegram...
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Who and Why Make DDoS Attacks on The Site of Colleges and Universities ?
Sites of colleges and universities are constantly subject to DDOS attacks. But who does it? do students really need to drop sites?”...
- 23Cyber Events
The Pitfalls of Keeping Your Ports Wide Open
Based on security assessment results, penetration testers often recommend hiding an enterprise network’s ports behind a whitelist. However, corporate IT teams don’t...
- 27Data Security
New Electrum DDoS botnet steals $4.6M after infecting 152,000 hosts
The majority of the bots are located in Brazil and Peru but the number of victims is constantly increasing across diverse regions....
- 25DDOS
DDoS Attack Prevention Method on Your Enterprise’s Systems – A Detailed Report
A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack aims to exhaust the resources of a network, application or service so that genuine users cannot gain...
- 22DDOS
DDoS-as-a Service Operator who Have Launched 1.3 Million DDoS Attacks Pleads Guilty in Court
An Operator of DDoS-as-a Service (Illegal Booter Services) pleads guilty in North Carolina count for his massive operations of DDoS attack against...
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DDoS Attack Unleashed – 500 Million packets-per-second
DDoS attacks are launched aiming to exhaust the resources of network, application or service so that the legitimate users unable to access...
