The government of New Zealand denied being hit by a distributed denial of service attack on its websites, by Anonymous group for their continued support and implementation of their controversial copyright law. Anonymous (the infamous hacking group that has become a headache for 100s of LEA – Law enforcement agencies around the world) cited that [...]
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Rabobank, a Dutch financial bank/corporation got hit by a DDoS attack and was taken offline. At the time of writing of this article, the website is back online. The massive distributed denial of service attack that occurred this morning, caused a disruption in Internet and mobile banking for the bank. In addition to this, DDoS [...]
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Verisign recently conducted a webinar for hosting providers (large datacenters) for protecting their network/infrastructure from distributed denial of service attacks. The webinar was aptly titled: “Verisign webinar DDoS Solution Planning: Protecting Your Hosting Environment.” Short description: The Verisign® Internet Defense Network provides organizations with reliable and scalable Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection services. As [...]
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A crucial element of a DDoS attack is the ability to employ hundreds, thousands, or even millions of infected hosts to do the attacker’s bidding. The reasons are obvious – the end target(s) of the attack will find it more difficult to fend off the malicious traffic, and the attack is less likely to be [...]
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The infamous hacking cowboys “Anonymous” has now set its eyes on Iran for the next set of DDoS Attacks. The websites of the Office of the Supreme Leader, State Police and the Islamic Revolutionary Guards were the selected websites that were targeted and crippled yesterday (1st May 2011). The attack coincided with International Worker’s [...]
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Arbor Networks, recently released an excellent report titled “Anatomy of a Botnet” which is a detailed document on how the Arbor ASERT Team discovers, analyzes and mitigates DDoS Attacks. The report in full can be downloaded here (581k PDF).
READ MORE »At about 7:00 PM Pakistan Time, almost all of the websites hosted by the Government of Pakistan – was down due to distributed denial of service attacks. Government of Pakistan websites are hosted by their absolutely incompetent agency called National Telecommunication Corporation (www.ntc.net.pk – not working at time of this post) and our protected by [...]
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WordPress, the world’s largest blog hosting provider to millions of bloggers, suffered a very large scale D DoS (or Distributed Denial of Service Attack). Over 30+ Million users of WordPress.com (including the famous tech sites such as TechCrunch) suffered an outage that lasted 10-15 minutes to 30 minutes depending whom you talk to. The inevitable [...]
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Damballa which is a security company specializing in cyber threats against the enterprise and service provider market, released its report that has analysis of botnet activity. This report is based on information from various sensors throughout the world. Some key point in the report can be summarized as follows: 1. Botnets managed to increase their [...]
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Wired Magazine in its recent issues covers the underworld of crime. As with many services that are criminals, Wired magazine covered very briefly the world of botnets and their money making potential. Within the issue is also a very interesting read – an article on a remote town in Romania – which has become cybercrime [...]
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After much deliberation, we have decided to go ahead and publish a multi-part report on the collusion between certain distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack protection service providers and Botnet owners (attackers) themselves, all in the goal of earning illegitimate money. Many victims are baffled as to why they would be attacked? If the obvious reasons such [...]
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Arbor Network‘ Infrastructure Security Report is fast becoming the bible by which one can gauge the way threats and solutions on the Internet are shaping our. Arbor’s 6th annual Worldwide Infrastructure Security Report was recently released and is worth a read. If you are concerned about the emerging threats, some credible statistics and trends and how can [...]
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