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Online services that charge to kick people out of games or bombard websites with data have been put out of action by PayPal and security researchers. The payment firm and the experts worked together to identify the accounts used by so-called “booter” services, They are thought to carry out hundreds of thousands of attacks each […]
Over the weekend Incapsula mitigated a unique DDoS attack against a large gaming website, in which WordPress played a key role, yet again. Typically, such application layer DDoS attacks are carried out by host botnets, but this time team Incapsula were surprised to see that the attack originated from approximately 2,500 WordPress sites, including some very […]
If you remember our article on a wave of DDoS attacks on several American banks, this news is the continual of that news and would be releasing some of the shocking aspects regarding the attacks. Here, we would like to add that these attacks were launched by a hacking group by the name of Izz […]
Hackers furious over release of controversial online game The War Z MMO have now started conducting DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks on the developer’s website (thewarz.com). The War Z game is the world’s first survival mmo Zombie Game that was developed by Hammerpoint Interactive which got into news after releasing half version of the game. The release of […]
While scrolling PasteBin, I got hold of 30 Egyptian government websites taken down by Anonymous hackers on 7th December in a possible DDoS attack for #Op_Egypt. The list of attacked websites includes the the Maritime Transport Sector, the Presidency, the Armed Forces, the Egyptian Accreditation Council, the Parliament, the Large Taxpayer Center, Ministry of Interior and other high profile […]
Mc Connell (the former director of US national security agency) has broke a shocking news for Americans that US could be facing a massive cyber attack in some time which could be equally harmful to 9/11 incident. According to Connell, the attack could down all the significant U.S. sites at once and an economic downturn […]
A common man when thinks about cyber terrorism or cyber crime, they think it may be just an illegal activity over some credit cards or online bank accounts, DDOS attacks, hacked social networking website profiles etc but what they do not think is the water running down from the tap, lights inside their home and […]