Verisign recently released a report on the state of DNS availability for companies on the Internet. It specifically covers some very important statistics about how DNS outages occur during DDoS attacks. The Report Summary is as follows: Web sites and other online services are among the most important operational and revenue generating tools for [...]
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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 [...]
READ MORE »Here is another tutorial I came across on how to use LOIC (Low Orbit Ion Cannon) on how to do DoS attacks. Remember boys and girls, DDoS/DoS is a crime. Only do this/use this tool in a controlled lab environment and for educational purposes only. Tutorial on DOS using LOIC.
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ModSecurity (a TrustWave company) recently released its ModSecurity v2.5.13 (download) – which specifically caters to the Slow DoS issue. ModSecurity is essentially an Apache plug-in that acts as a Web Application Firewall (WAF), and is very good in mitigating malicious traffic like SQL Injections, XSS (Cross Site Scripting), etc. The Slow DDoS issue is one [...]
READ MORE »DDOS Attack – Now What? When you are hit with a distributed denial of service attack, your options can be very limited to mitigate it. First of all relax. No one is dying. No need to get panicky. Yes, you’re under attack, but like I said, no one is dying. When you get panicky and edgy, [...]
READ MORE »DNS Provider DNSMadeEasy today announced that it has recently upgraded their DNS Software which goes by the name of “Elite Resolution Service” to V 2.0 The new release will aid DME to have better control over its DNS Servers by providing more redundancy and resiliance for the DNS services that they provide to their clients. [...]
READ MORE »RIAA – the Recording Industry Association of America ‘s website has been down since Friday, after ‘Anonymous’ citied they will attack the website and also the law firm assisting them. As of 1st November 2010 11GMT the website is still down and is a victim of a distributed denial of service attack. The ghost group [...]
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Members of the Anonymous Operation: Payback plan to launch a DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack against the RIAA website today, Friday October 29 at 4.00 pm EST. After the Tuesday shutdown of the LimeWire client, Anonymous is mighty angry. Anonymous, whose members also include people from the 4chan “/b/” bulletin board, does not usually announce and [...]
READ MORE »Botnets today represent one of the Top 5 security threat both enterprises and services providers have identified and are plagued with. Used for sending spam, DDoS attacks (distributed denial of service), phishing, credit card number harvesting, password, spreading malware through IM, and torrents, exploiting personal computers, the botnet threat is growing larger day by day. [...]
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Online adult entertainment giant, Hustler.com was hit with a large scale distributed denial of service attack. The attack happened on Friday at 1:45 p.m. (PDT) but was back up at 3:10 p.m. The DDoS attack was done by a vigilante group who call themselves 4Chan – they are doing this attack against Hustler.com becuase the [...]
READ MORE »EarnPlaza.com a HYIP website – just recently announced that they are back on their feet after being hit by a DDoS attack. HYIP websites get DDoS’d a lot. It seems EarnPlaza.com will now be hosting with Dragonara to protect itself from DDoS attacks. Here is a news item from HYIP Monitor - a website that monitors the [...]
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Minecraft.net – (Minecraft is a sandbox building game which allows players to build constructions out of textured cubes in a 3D world.) recently suffered a large scale ddos attack on its servers. The reason being that its creator Markus “Notch” Persson had not updated his servers, so it seems the DDoS was coming in from [...]
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