Two major Australian atheist website get DDoS. Read more about it here.
JustBet.com website is under attack. Read more about this here.
Sedo: .de brings in .dos!
Oct 25
Sedo, the domain name auctioneer said, that it was not the intense bidding activity for the one, two and three character .de names that bought its website down, but in fact a denial of service attack. Read more about it here.
As with everything else in life, the number of attacks, in this case, DoS attacks have grown, whilst the cost of actually doing a DoS attack has dropped. Read more on this here.
The Register has a well-written article on the post-DDoS scenario and analysis of what happened at BitBucket. BitBucket as you may know was a customer on the Amazon EC2 Cloud and it got DDoS’d big time. This article clearly spells out that it was actually Amazon that was at fault, by exposing their internal storage network to the outside world to be DDoS.
Zeus Bot Tracker.
Oct 9
Here is perhaps one of the most professional tracking websites that I have seen for a Bot. Abuse.ch is a website that tracks the ZeuS hosts around the world. More at https://zeustracker.abuse.ch/index.php
Malware economy is thriving – especially in this downturn economy. You can even buy your own bot from $100, to $ 3,500.
Bots that can be used for stealing passwords, spamware, adware, ddos attacks, etc. are now available for sale if you know where to look.
Comcast launched a new service, that will be geared at providing their users with in-browser alerts/notifications about possible viruses / infections, etc.
Security Tube.
Oct 9
I came across this website SecurityTube…. this is a YouTube equivalent (if you will) for all things tech. Some of the videos are really good and informative.
Fix your Apache.
Oct 9
Apache webserver has an update – one that fixes an exploit that could enable/aid DoS – DDoS attacks.