One of the co-founders of ChronoPay (a Russian 3PP – 3rd Party Payment Processor) was arrested on the alleged connection between him and a hacker who was hired to run a distributed denial of service attacks against a business rival. Russian Pavel Vrublevsky who is also an owner in a company called RS-Promotion (a shady [...]
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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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Hacktivists Anonymous Group hit the government of Malaysia hard yesterday (and today) with a distributed denial of service attacks. Anonymous has accused the Malaysian government of unwarranted Internet censorship. The main website www.Malaysia.gov.my was down (and at the time of reporting of this article – is still down). The official comment from the Malaysian Communications [...]
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Hackivists group Anonymous has just about had it with the Federal Reserve. In a recent YouTube video posted, the group has highlighted the reasons for going after the Federal Reserve and specifically wants the Chairman of the Board, Ben Bernake to step down. The operation is being dubbed “Operation Empire State Rebellion” and it will [...]
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Update: 7:41 Saturday (GMT) – US Chamber’s moving their website to DoSArrest was supposed to help solve their issue of being able to sustain a DDoS attack. Well unfortunately that did not turn out in their favor. As of writing of this article, the website for US Chamber is still down, and the A record [...]
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Update: 8:25 Sunday (GMT) – Services are pretty much all restored, however, www.DirectNIC.com is still being blocked from many overseas location. It seems like their provider InterNAP is enforcing some Geo-block, so certain countries cannot access their network. Update: As of 14:27 Friday (GMT) – www.DirectNIC.com was still down, and customers still affected. Domain registrar DirectNIC [...]
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Summary: Jakub Alimov from the Seznam.cz and minor from Zone-h.org has published a paper that was presented at the “Security & Protection of Information” conference in the Czech republic that outlines how a new form of DDoS attack that currently exists. This informative article can be read in its entirety http://www.zone-h.org/news/id/4739.
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Cloud Application security and acceleration services company CloudFlare [read this article on CloudFlare's offering], recently updated its blog on how it can mitigate DDoS Attacks for its clients. The blog entry on a customer’s testimonial of being a DDoS attack recipient and how CloudFlare saved the day, can be read here. CloudFlare, essentially can be categorized as a CDN [...]
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Ruby application hosting company, Heroku, recently got hit by a large DDoS Attack. The distributed denial of service attack was in the form of a SYN flood attack. Hreoku provides a cloud based platform for building and hosting Ruby applications. A very detailed and forthcoming status update shows how Heruko learned of the DDoS attack [...]
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The United Kingdom public sector union website has been under a distributed denial of service attack for the past couple of days. The website http://www.pcs.org.uk/ is not opening up. No one seems to have a convincing reason as to why this website would be suffering a DDoS Attack. The Public Sector Union has their annual [...]
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Introduction: Insurance Policy for DDoS Attacks by Scott N. Godes It seems that 2011 has been the year of cyberattacks – denial of service attacks, data breaches, and more. Would you insurance policies cover those events? Beyond the denial of service attacks that made news headlines, a shocking “80 percent of respondents” in a survey [...]
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