Patrick Gilmore: CyberBunker Caused ‘Largest DDoS Attack’ In Internet History
A Netherlands-based web hosting firm was behind a denial of service attack that caused a global slowdown of the Internet, the Daily Telegraph reports. Switzerland-based Spamhaus, a not-for-profit anti-spam organization, placed CyberBunker on a blacklist of sites email providers use to filter spam. John Reid, a Spamhaus spokesman, told Bloomberg the distributed denial of service [...]
Cisco is collaborating with Arbor Networks to deploy a unified threat management offering for helping defend against distributed denial-of-service attacks. Tom Bienkowski, Arbor director of product marketing at Arbor, told NetworkWorld.com Cisco will embed Arbor’s Peakflow SP Threat Management System into a module on its carrier-class CRS-1 routers. Ellen Messmer writes the companies are aiming [...]
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According to Neustar director of security operations, Ted Swearingen, small and midsize businesses need to be prepared for Denial of Service attack with an “instant response plan.” “If you don’t plan, when you do actually have an event your response time and general reaction will be much more chaotic, and you’ll have a much harder [...]
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Hacker group LulzSec said it broke into the website of InfraGard Atlanta, the local branch of the FBI’s civilian watchdog that works to fight terrorist threats, defaced it and leaked 180 usernames and passwords of members, CNET reports. Visitors to InfragardAtlanta.org were last Friday met with a non-English language video and the message “Let it [...]
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The website of the Istanbul-based left-wing Birgün newspaper was hit Monday by a distributed denial-of-service attack, making access to the site near-impossible, BIA News reports. Birgun.net has been the target of similar attacks in the past and is now working on determining the source and on preventing more attacks. “We encounter this situation only one [...]
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Canadian internet service provider Islandnet.com was hit with a cyber attack Wednesday and knocked offline until today, according to Canadian news reports. Vancouver Sun said the Victoria-based ISP tweeted it had suffered a distributed denial-of-service attack Wednesday morning. The attack took down Island Net’s website and impacted its customers as well, including Thrifty Foods, Smoking [...]
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Changing law that would demand industry to share more cybersecurity information among companies will not lead to more secure networks, according to AT&T Chief Security Officer Ed Amoroso. When there is talk about information sharing, it sounds great, “like saying you should love your mom and eat apple pie,” Amoroso said at yesterday’s Potomac Institute [...]
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Websites operated by Radio Netherlands Worldwide were paralyzed for nearly a day after an onslaught of distributed denial-of services attacks launched yesterday. The cyber attack, which prevented tens of thousands of users from accessing RNW’s online news and feature services, demonstrates how vulnerable new media can be, said Radio Netherlands Worldwide’s Managing Director Jan Hoek. [...]
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Hacktivist collective Anonymous has announced OpIran, a new campaign designed to launch denial-of-service attacks at Iranian websites, according to news reports. Addressing the Iranian people, a post on AnonNews.org noted how “an era of change is sweeping the world,” and workers everywhere are taking their place to lead and control their destiny. “The people of [...]
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A San Francisco-based website promoting social justice has been targeted by hackers for its support of a Chinese dissident, the San Francisco Examiner reported. Change.org founder Ben Rattray asked the U.S. State Department to condemn the “highly sophisticated” attacks, which he said began after the website’s petitioned to free Ai WeiWei, an artist and outspoken [...]
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