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/
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Visit the ESet Blog.
Oct 9
Here is what I would call a well-written article on explaining DoS attacks, especially the difference between a network level DoS attack and an Application layer DoS attack.
The article is written by Ryan Barnett is Director of Application Security Research at Breach Security, WASC Distributed Open Proxy Honeypot Project Leader and OWASP ModSecurity Core Rule Set Project Leader.
It seems even game server administrators sometimes cannot endure rivals. So this game server admin in China decides to do a DDoS to level the competition, only to get arrested himself.
From one of the person’s associated with Java.net – a posting on her blog shows that they have been experiencing some DDoS attacks. Not sure which area of the domain is getting the attack, but I am speculating that it would probably be their repository.
Stumbled upon this blog http://nix101.com/ – worth reading. Talks a lot about DDoS and how to mitigate it, no-nonsense reading.
Check out also the rate-limiting script for Apache aptly called BARF! 
The script is here.
BitBucket.org which is a code hosting website service [for the Mercurial (software) that is used extensively by software developers] got hit by a massive DDoS attack.
BitBucket which is hosted on Amazon’s Cloud suffered major outage this past weekend. For a company that relies on the Amazon cloud for uptime, scalability and reliablity, this DDoS attack was tough. It took Amazon 16 hours before they even accepted/acknowledged the DDoS attack.
Read a detailed explanation offered by BitBucket on their blog.
Here is a blog from Argentina. Albeit it is in Spanish, I’ve used Google Translations to convert it to English. This is a really informative blog. The knowledge and information disseminated from this blog is invaluable.
With the Australian Censorship law – dividing the Aussies, electronic civil disobedience (I just love this phrase) got together for a little DDoS showdown. Read more about it here.
Cyborgs for Cyber Defense.
Sep 28
And I quote… (because I cannot possibly do justice to the opening paragraph).
“Stardate: The future. Scenario: North America is under attack from a highly skilled group of cybercriminals intent on bringing down major Internet exchange points. In a federal cybersecurity operations center, the commanding officer, whose brain has been augmented with powerful stimulation to the areas that control stress response and interpretation of external events, is able to spot the key deceptive elements in the cyber attack. With the help of a special helmet-style simulation display, the commander counters the attack expertly.”
Here is a great blog covering the Russian Business Network …aka RBN. RBN is notorious for botnet rentals, denial of service attacks, phishing, spamming, etc.
The blog is a very detailed, thorough and well laid out blog (don’t get to see this very often). Hats off to the blog owner for excellent coverage.