Written by Two major Australian atheist website get DDoS. Read more about it here.
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JustBet.com website under attack.
JustBet.com website is under attack. Read more about this here.
READ MORE »Sedo: .de brings in .dos!
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.
READ MORE »DoS Attacks Grow – Costs Drop!
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.
READ MORE »BitBucket DDoS Attack – What Went Wrong?
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 [...]
READ MORE »Zeus Bot Tracker.
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
READ MORE »Malware Economy Thriving. Buy a DDoS bot today!
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. Read more here.
READ MORE »Comcast will warn users if their PC’s are infected.
Comcast launched a new service, that will be geared at providing their users with in-browser alerts/notifications about possible viruses / infections, etc. Read more here.
READ MORE »Security Tube.
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.
READ MORE »Fix your Apache.
Apache webserver has an update – one that fixes an exploit that could enable/aid DoS – DDoS attacks. Read the news article by ServerWatch.
READ MORE »Visit the ESet Blog.
ESet the makers of NOD32 antivirus software have a blog that is truly worth reading. You can access the blog at: http://www.eset.com/threat-center/blog/
READ MORE »NSF to Fund Defense from DOS Attacks
Stevens Institute of Technology will get funded by NSF for Defense from Denial of Service Attacks. Read the detailed Press Release here.
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