Blog Posts Tagged with "DDoS"
The Pirate Bay Labels DDoS Attacks as Censorship
May 09, 2012 Added by:Headlines
Critics of DDoS attacks conducted by movements like Anonymous have long held that it is hypocritical to profess the defense of free speech by engaging in a tactic that undermines one's right to freely communicate, whether the interest is sociopolitical or an effort to engage in commerce...
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Google as a Cyber Weapon: New Attack Method Discovered
April 30, 2012 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
The lesson learned is that it is possible to use Google as a cyber weapon to lauch a powerful "Denial of Money" attack against other platforms. In reality, the service in this case hasn't been interrupted, but the attack has made it extremely expensive to run...
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Patriot Hackers: GET OFF MY LAWN!
April 19, 2012 Added by:Scot Terban
Do something constructive instead of destructive and inhibiting. You never know what you are stumbling about in. You could be ruining operations that lead to arrests or actionable intelligence. Think about it before you go all Charles Bronson and then a Pastebin dump about it...
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A Detailed Analysis of the DDoS Phenomena
April 16, 2012 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
The report showed 19.1TB of data and 14 billion packets of malicious traffic were aimed at financial services during Q4 2011, and that the traffic increased during Q1 2012, with 65TB of data and 1.1 trillion packets that were identified and mitigated. The figures are amazing...
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Dirt Jumper DDoS Botnet Variants Continue to Proliferate
April 13, 2012 Added by:Headlines
“Development will continue, and there are increasing trends towards the development of attack techniques that will bypass certain types of anti-DDoS protection measures. The underground economy continues to flourish, and DDoS services are a piece of that rotten pie..."
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Vague Cybersecurity Legislation Threatens Civil Liberties
April 02, 2012 Added by:Electronic Frontier Foundation
Using cryptography to protect communications could be taken as a way to defeat an operational control. Measuring the performance of one's ISP or analyzing whether packets are being modified maliciously could all be seen as security threats under this definition...
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FBI Issues Press Release on Anonymous - LulzSec Arrests
March 06, 2012 Added by:Headlines
Four Principal Members of “Anonymous” and “LulzSec” charged with computer hacking and fifth member pleads guilty; “AntiSec” member also charged with stealing confidential information from approximately 860,000 clients and subscribers of Stratfor...
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IPv6 Protocol Implementation is Not a Security Panacea
February 22, 2012 Added by:Headlines
"The same thing that made the IPv6-enabled Internet valuable has also made it an increasingly valuable venue for attacks. While the frequency of attacks is relatively modest on IPv6 today, we expect that accelerated adoption will be followed in-kind by an accelerated pace of attacks..."
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Planned Anonymous Attack on the Internet Likely to Fail
February 20, 2012 Added by:Headlines
"The attack is no longer practical. It's such a common idea that Wikipedia has a page devoted to it. For something so obvious, defenders have spent considerable time devising solutions. There are many reasons why such an attack won't cause a global blackout..."
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Stock Exchange Websites Disrupted by DDoS Attacks
February 15, 2012 Added by:Headlines
Websites operated by Nasdaq OMX, the Chicago Board Options exchange, and Bats Trading experienced disruptions due to a spate of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks conducted by a hacktivist group sympathetic to the Occupy Wall Street movement called L0NGwave99...
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Commercial DDoS Tools Offer a Competitive Advantage
February 13, 2012 Added by:Headlines
With the growing availability of DDoS services being marketed directly to businesses, enterprises may increasingly find themselves under attack from competitors seeking to gain an advantage in the increasingly lucrative Internet marketplace...
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Enterprise Security and the Battle Over Productivity
February 11, 2012 Added by:Rafal Los
The trick is, when security can't clearly and absolutely get definition on what employees should and shouldn't be allowed to do, they have to implement the law of least privilege overly aggressively and then things get slow, tedious, and everyone complains about security...
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DDoS Attacks: An Excuse to Talk About IPv6 Security
February 10, 2012 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
The switchover from the existing address protocol IPv4 to IPv6 will give attackers a great opportunity. With the introduction of the protocol a huge quantity of new internet addresses is available, and those addresses could be used as sources for DDoS attacks...
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Anonymous Faction Hits Banks With DDoS Attacks
February 06, 2012 Added by:Headlines
A faction of the rogue Anonymous movement temporarily disrupted the online presence of several major banks with an onslaught of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. Among the targets of the group identifying itself as Anonymous Brasil were Citibank and HSBC...
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Senate Testimony: Cyber Security as a Strategic Concern
February 02, 2012 Added by:Headlines
Testimony offered before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence included threats to cybersecurity, the third item addressed, signifying that intrusions by state-sponsored China and Russia and independent actors like Anonymous and Lulzsec continue to be a concern...
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Looking Back: A Review of Threats Faced in 2011
February 02, 2012 Added by:Simon Heron
There is a great deal that can be gleaned from customer systems. When statistics from many different organizations, of different sizes, from different industries, in different countries are analyzed, they provide a useful insight into the true nature of security threats...
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