Network Solutions, a domain name registry and web hosting company, suffered from two consecutive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. According to Shashi Bellamkonda, the company’s spokesman: Jun 21, 2011 @ 13:46: Network Solutions experienced a distributed denial of service attack Monday afternoon, June 20, 2011 and again on Tuesday morning, June 21, 2011. Our engineers [...]
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A group of hackers calling themselves LulzSec (Lulz Security) has claimed that they created the problems which made the CIA website unavailable for most of Wednesday evening. LulzSec claimed, via a tweet, that they had downed the CIA website. Tango down – CIA.Gov - for the lulz. This claim has yet to be confirmed since it is very difficult [...]
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Societe Generale’s CERT (Computer Emergency Response Team) recently released an Incident Response cheatsheet (in the public domain) for DDoS Attacks. You usually don’t see much of these around. The cheatsheet can be viewed/downloaded from here: IRM-4 DDoS (PDF 196K) Societe Generale’s Official CERT Page can be accessed: at: http://cert.societegenerale.com/en/
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Members of the Anonymous Operation: Payback plan to launch a DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack against the RIAA website today, Friday October 29 at 4.00 pm EST. After the Tuesday shutdown of the LimeWire client, Anonymous is mighty angry. Anonymous, whose members also include people from the 4chan “/b/” bulletin board, does not usually announce and [...]
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In December 2009, the popular networking site Twitter faced serious problems as its DNS records were compromised. Visitors to the site saw a message informing them that Twitter had been hacked by “The Iranian Cyber Army.” Although third party applications functioned properly, the website itself remained down. A month later, Chinese search engine, Baidu, was [...]
READ MORE »Arbor Networks introduced a new stand-alone DDoS mitigation product, Arbor Peakflow SP version 5.5. This product aims to target DDoS vulnerabilities in cloud computing and offers this as a way to assist hosting providers that provide dedicated servers. Previously, the company’s Peakflow SP and TMS (Threat Management Systems) had been integrated to provide a combination [...]
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Name: Anonymous Modus Operandi: Operation Payback. Latest victims: Intellectual Property Office, UK, Gene Simmons.com, RIAA, the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft, AiPlex, the British Phonographic Industry, and ACS:Law (more coming in as we write) What exactly is Operation Payback? It is a series of DDoS attacks and other hacking activities being carried out by a [...]
READ MORE »Defending copyrights and irritating the biggest Dos Attack network of hackers in the world is not as easy it seems. Ask KISS bassist Gene Simmons. Gene found his official website Gene Simmons.com had been subjected to DDoS attacks that brought down his website. This was after Simmons made headlines by announcing, “Make sure your brand [...]
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If you got an email from the IRS informing you that your payment had been rejected, what would you do? A majority would click on the link provided in the email to rectify the problem… a majority did so and had all their secure information stolen. The Zeus Trojan horse, first spotted in the middle [...]
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