DoS Attacks

2 Australian Atheist Websites get DDoS

Faisal Khan — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 17:11:00 +0000

Two major Australian atheist website get DDoS. Read more about it here.

JustBet.com website under attack.

Faisal Khan — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 16:44:56 +0000

JustBet.com website is under attack. Read more about this here.

Sedo: .de brings in .dos!

Faisal Khan — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 16:40:48 +0000

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.

DoS Attacks Grow – Costs Drop!

Faisal Khan — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 16:33:44 +0000

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.

BitBucket DDoS Attack – What Went Wrong?

Faisal Khan — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 10:49:21 +0000

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.

Read the complete article here.

Zeus Bot Tracker.

Faisal Khan — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 20:37:04 +0000

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

Malware Economy Thriving. Buy a DDoS bot today!

Faisal Khan — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 20:35:13 +0000

Malware economy is thriving – especially in this downturn economy. You can even buy your own bot from $100, to $ 3,500.

Bots that can be used for stealing passwords, spamware, adware, ddos attacks, etc. are now available for sale if you know where to look.

Comcast will warn users if their PC’s are infected.

Faisal Khan — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 20:32:46 +0000

Comcast launched a new service, that will be geared at providing their users with in-browser alerts/notifications about possible viruses / infections, etc.

Security Tube.

Faisal Khan — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 20:06:11 +0000

I came across this website SecurityTube…. this is a YouTube equivalent (if you will) for all things tech. Some of the videos are really good and informative.

Fix your Apache.

Faisal Khan — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 19:41:53 +0000

Apache webserver has an update – one that fixes an exploit that could enable/aid DoS – DDoS attacks.

Read the news article by ServerWatch.