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.
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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.
“A new era of computing is on the rise and viruses, spies and malware developers are tagging along for the ride.
The new playground for hackers is “the cloud,” the term for computer applications and services hosted on the Internet. Some of the devices making the cloud more popular these days are BlackBerries and other smartphones.”
Source: PC World – Business Center
Don’t know what to make out of it – except that the Whitehouse has decided that October will be the National Cybersecurity Awareness Month. More on this here.
“25 year old Petru Bogdan Belbita and 28 year old Cornel Ionut Tonita, both from Romania, were arrested in Canada and Croatia respectively. They stand accused, along with five other defendants, of duping customers of financial institutions, including PayPal, Citibank, Capital One, into divulging information such as credit card or account details, which were then used for fraudulent purposes, back in 2007.”
Source: More on this article 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.
Researchers in Auburn University have devised new filtering techniques to thwart the menace of DDoS attacks. The filters which essentially is a passive protocol, is called Identity-Based Privacy-Protected Access Control Filter (IPACF) and it blocks threats to the gatekeeping computers, the Authentication Servers (AS), and so allows legitimate users with valid passwords to access private resources.
Texas Governor Rick Perry’s 2010 re-election bid is being marred by his website constantly getting DDoS’d. Some say it was a database overload error, some say, DDoS. You be the judge, read the article here.
HYIP Monitor under DDoS
Sep 30
HYIP Monitor website FairestMonitor.com has been under DDoS attack for the past couple of days. HYIP websites get DDoS a lot, and there is a huge conspiracy theory that the people who DDoS HYIP websites are also then the same people who then come forward and offer protection from such DDoS attacks.
Actinic a small online shopping cart/e-commerce software vendor is currently under a DDoS as per the posting on their forums. You can read more about this attack here.