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David Meyer Feb 11, 2015 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Happy Safer Internet Day!

Denial-of-service attack takes out Dutch government websites

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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Europe, Technology, Work & Collaboration
David Meyer Jan 16, 2015 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Lizard Squad arrest

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…

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Europe, Technology, Work & Collaboration
David Meyer Jan 7, 2015 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Possible political protest

German 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…

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Europe, Technology, Work & Collaboration
Stacey Higginbotham Dec 29, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Not again!

Sony 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…

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Technology
David Meyer Dec 11, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Battle for Battlefield

Gaming 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…

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Apple, Europe, Technology
David Meyer Sep 29, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog Post

CloudFlare 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.…

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Cloud & Infrastructure, Technology, Work & Collaboration
David Meyer Aug 25, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog Post

Sony 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.…

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Technology, Work & Collaboration
David Meyer Jun 13, 2014 (Jun 10, 2020) -- Blog Post

Feedly’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…

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Technology
David Meyer Jun 11, 2014 (Jun 10, 2020) -- Blog Post

Evernote 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.…

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Cloud & Infrastructure, Technology
David Meyer Mar 18, 2014 (Jun 10, 2020) -- Blog Post

Elance 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.…

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Technology
David Meyer Mar 14, 2014 (Jun 10, 2020) -- Blog Post

Online 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.…

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Europe, Technology
Jeff Roberts Feb 11, 2014 (Jun 10, 2020) -- Blog Post

Bitcoin 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.…

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Technology
David Meyer Feb 11, 2014 (Jun 10, 2020) -- Blog Post

Record-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.…

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Europe, Technology
Derrick Harris Dec 17, 2013 (Jun 10, 2020) -- Blog Post

CloudFlare 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.…

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Cloud & Infrastructure
Derrick Harris Oct 21, 2013 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

DDoS 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.…

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Cloud & Infrastructure, Data Infrastructure, AI & Analytics, Europe, Technology
Lauren Hockenson Aug 7, 2013 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

Black 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.…

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Technology
Lauren Hockenson Jul 23, 2013 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

State 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.…

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Data Infrastructure, AI & Analytics
David Meyer Jul 19, 2013 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

UPDATED: 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.…

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Cloud & Infrastructure, Europe, Technology
Derrick Harris Apr 12, 2013 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

CloudFlare 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.…

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Cloud & Infrastructure, Technology
David Meyer Mar 27, 2013 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

What 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.…

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Data Infrastructure, AI & Analytics, Europe, Technology
Barb Darrow Mar 3, 2013 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

CloudFlare 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.…

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Cloud & Infrastructure, Technology
Derrick Harris Sep 11, 2012 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

GoDaddy: ‘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.…

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Cloud & Infrastructure, Technology
Stacey Higginbotham Sep 10, 2012 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

“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…

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Cloud & Infrastructure, Technology
Robert Andrews May 9, 2012 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

Anonymous 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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Edge & Networking, Europe, Media, Technology

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