ddos
A group of hackers that recently took down Tumblr have threatened to attack gamers next. The group called R.I.U. Star Patrol has said that the ......
Chinese tech company Hangzhou Xiongmai Technology has confirmed that its products were involved in the massive DDoS attack that took down major sites in the U.S. on Friday.
Six teenagers in the UK have been released on bail after being accused of using the Lizard Squad's cyberattack tool to take down multiple sites and services.
A group of hackers calling themselves the 'Lizard Squad' have taken down both Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network today, denying gamers access to multiplayer gaming and other online downloads.ˇ
The Sony PlayStation Network remains down thanks to a DDoS attack earlier this morning.
Earlier this week, popular notetaking app Evernote, and RSS feed service Feed.ly were taken down by multi-hour DDoS attacks.
A part of the AfterDawn network was unreachable for 1-2 hours this morning (around 10:00 AM Eastern Time, 15:00 GMT). The outage was caused ......
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Late last night, the website for Dropbox was taken down, potentially by hackers, although it is back up now.
Anti-Spamhaus group supposedly behind attack
A new Android trojan has been found that causes infected devices to be used for spamming text message purposes and even DDoS attacks.
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GoDaddy, hit by a day-long DNS outage that has affected thousands of customers, is now letting its rival VeriSign do the hosting.
This afternoon, ......
The US DOJ has announced today that Arizona man Joshua Schichtel has been sentenced to 30 months in prison for selling access to botnets as ......
The websites of the Swedish government, their armed forces and the Swedish Institute were all temporarily knocked out today by large DDoS attacks.
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WikiLeaks.org returned to action today after being down for over a week due to a giant DDoS attack.
Thanks to the help of Web security company ......
The hacktivist collective known as Anonymous was hit with a "taste of its own medicine," says security software company Symantec.
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Bruce Raisley of Kansas City, Missouri has been sentenced to two years of prison this week after being convicted of creating a virus that infected ......
Wikileaks, the group behind recent leaks of sensitive data, found itself homeless today for a few hours, after Amazon pulled its hosting services.
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