Two major Australian atheist website get DDoS. Read more about it here.
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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
Comcast launched a new service, that will be geared at providing their users with in-browser alerts/notifications about possible viruses / infections, etc.
Stevens Institute of Technology will get funded by NSF for Defense from Denial of Service Attacks.
It is being reported that the website JustBet.com is under DDoS.
Existing Justbet players who would like to access Justbet’s alternate URL must call 1-800-274-8313 for the backup website. SBR will update when Justbet is back online.
I am not sure if this is a first, but it sure seems like a first in the industry. Most service providers who stop DDoS attack, do not provide any detailed logs, IP information, etc. on the attack. Reasons vary from inability to stop all the malicious packets (which might filter through), to secrecy, etc.
However, I think Staminus may have just raised the bar. I just came across their forum post (which is quite old), but I was totally taken back. Staminus is now providing detailed log reports, etc. from the client’s Control Panel.