Many websites of the Dutch government were hammered by a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, the government said on Wednesday. In a statement,…
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UK teen arrested over Xbox and Playstation attacks, swatting
Police in the U.K. have arrested another man in connection with the disruption of Microsoft’s Xbox Live and Sony’s PlayStation Network over…
Read MoreGerman government website attack may be Ukraine-related
Two German government websites were knocked offline by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack around 10am local time on Wednesday. Chancellor…
Read MoreSony PSN still struggling in wake of Christmas DDoS attacks
Frustrated users were still taking to Twitter to complain and Sony’s Playstation Network support page still showed intermittent connectivity Monday night in…
Read MoreGaming service hack attack whacks thousands of Swedish bystanders
On Thursday, Sweden’s biggest internet service provider, Telia, said that its network had suffered an attack earlier this week from hackers who…
Read MoreCloudFlare activates free Universal SSL encryption for its customers’ websites
The firm is rolling out what it said it would roll out a couple months back, in a move that should provide better protection even for websites using CloudFlare's free services.…
Read MoreSony PlayStation Network back up after DDoS, associated with plane bomb threat
The attack took down the PSN on Sunday. It may have been the work of the same person who claimed there was a bomb on a flight carrying a Sony executive, causing the flight to be diverted.…
Read MoreFeedly’s “extortion” attack continues with third DDoS wave
Feedly is suffering yet another distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, the third since the news aggregation service was first targeted on…
Read MoreEvernote and Feedly hit by DDoS attacks
Evernote's denial of service attack seems to have been going on for at least 10 hours, causing data synchronization problems for users. Feedly's seems to be connected with an extortion attempt.…
Read MoreElance and oDesk hit by major DDoS attacks, downing services for many freelancers
The Elance denial-of-service attack has been going on for over a day now, though it is now only sporadic. Elance says it has bought in new defences to try cope. Meanwhile oDesk says it got hit by a briefer, separate attack.…
Read MoreOnline attacks hit Russian state and media in wake of independent media crackdown
A local Anonymous branch is DDoSing Russian media outlets, while a similar attack also took out the websites of the Kremlin and the Russian Central Bank. This follows the state blockading of several Putin-unfriendly outlets.…
Read MoreBitcoin exchanges halt withdrawals as “massive” attack spreads
An attack on the Bitcoin eco-system is spreading as hackers try to exploit services that have not protected themselves against a vulnerability known as transaction malleability.…
Read MoreRecord-breaking DDoS attack struck on Monday, according to reports
The attack, which appears to have been felt particularly hard in Europe, apparently exploited the protocol that maintains the accuracy of computers' clocks.…
Read MoreCloudFlare is flush with cash, building its gear and ready to take on AWS at the edge
Cloud-based application performance and security specialist CloudFlare finally announced on Tuesday that it closed a $50 million funding round in December 2012, but the real story is about the company's rapid growth and how it's rethinking its infrastructure to support all that traffic.…
Read MoreDDoS attacks are likely bombarding the U.S. as we speak
Google's new real-time map showing DDoS attacks across the world is both awesome and scary -- especially if you're running a website in the United States.…
Read MoreBlack Hat hacker claims he can make $15k to $20k an hour
In a Reddit AmA, a Black Hat hacker breaks down the business of spamming and DDoS attacks on the internet. He says he sends 90 million spam mails a day.…
Read MoreState of the Internet: the internet’s getting faster in lesser-developed countries
Akamai's quarterly State of the Internet address showed two things: Internet speeds of many developing countries are getting faster, and more hackers are taking advantage of that for security attacks.…
Read MoreUPDATED: GitHub services return after denial-of-service attack
Many developers will be busy drumming their fingers on the desk right now, as the widely-used code-hosting service GitHub works to fight off a DDoS attack on its systems.…
Read MoreCloudFlare is trying to fight DDoS attacks by designing its own gear
Web performance and security startup CloudFlare isn't as big as Google or Facebook, but it does handle a lot of traffic. And now, like its larger peers, the company is designing its own gear to solve it own unique brand of problems.…
Read MoreWhat you need to know about the world’s biggest DDoS attack
At peak traffic of 300Gbps, the Spamhaus attack is probably unprecedented. But has it really had as big an effect as is suggested in some reports? Here's what's going on.…
Read MoreCloudFlare goes down, cites router issue in DDoS attack
CloudFlare's web security service suffered an hour-long outage after the company tried to respond to a DDoS attack on one of its customers.…
Read MoreGoDaddy: ‘We weren’t attacked.’
Hosting giant GoDaddy has completed its investigation of Monday's outage and deemed it was not the result of a DDoS attack as originally rumored, but rather the result of network failures within GoDaddy's system. The outage crippled hundreds of thousands of web sites.…
Read More“They squashed our launch.” GoDaddy’s troubles hit Kickstarter data service
GoDaddy, the hosting and domain registrar has been down for more than four hours, possibly as a result of the group Anonymous. But the founder of ThingsWeStart, a Kickstarter data collection project just wishes it hadn't happened in the middle of his site's launch. hacktavist…
Read MoreAnonymous hits UK’s Virgin Media in Pirate Bay protest
The hacking collective claims to have crashed the website of Virgin Media in retribution for complying with an order to block UK Pirate Bay access - but Bay honchos condemn the act.…
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