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Cyber Commander Addresses DDoS - Says It's Not Government's Role to Defend Banks
Army Gen. Keith Alexander, who heads the U.S. military's Cyber Command, says it isn't the role of the government to defend American banks against distributed-denial-of-service attacks that have targeted them for the past several months [see New Wave of DDoS Attacks Launched].
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DDoS, Malware Attacks Cost Victims Thousands Of Dollars A Day
More than 80 percent of attacks against U.S. organizations come from U.S.-based IP addresses. New eye-popping data shows the cost of cyberattacks to victim organizations: They spend as much as $6,500 per hour to recover from DDoS attacks, and $3,000 a day for up to 30 days recove... read more
Hotels, how secure is your data?
Hotels need to make sure that they are well-positioned in the war against online attacks
The last thing you want as a hospitality company is to deal with a Denial of Service (DoS) or Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. Disrupted online business can affect your busines... read more
One year on, Raspberry Pi hit by more DDoS attacks: coincidence?
The news wires have been buzzing over the weekend after it emerged that the Raspberry Pi website had been hit by a 'million zombie' Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack during the week. Although the outage was relatively brief, with the Raspberry Pi Foundation admitting th... read more
GitHub Hit With A DDoS Attack, Second In Two Days, And “Major Service Outageâ€
Services on code-sharing site GitHub have been disrupted for over an hour in what started as a “major service outage†because of a “brief DDoS attack.†This is the second DDoS attack in as many days and at least the third in the last several months: Yester... read more
Website Shows Cyberattacks as They Happen
Deutsche Telekom, a German telecommunications company, has developed a website that allows users to monitor cyberattacks as they happen.
The almost unpronounceable Sicherheitstacho.eu (loosely translated as "security tachometer") displays events as they happen, giving the time... read more
Hacktivists plan to resume DDoS campaign against U.S. banks
Citing inadequate efforts to remove an anti-Muslim video from the web, a hacktivist group is calling for more distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks to be launched against U.S. bank sites.
The collective, known as Martyr Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Cyber Fighters, suspended its... read more
Raspberry Pi Foundation Fends Off DDoS Attack from Million Zombies
Attackers briefly knocked the website for the foundation behind the popular Raspberry Pi offline with a distributed denial of service attack late Tuesday.
"We're being DDoS'd at the moment—very sorry if you can't see the website. If it goes on, we'll try to get some mor... read more
Bank Attackers Restart Operation Ababil DDoS Disruptions
The hacktivist Muslim bank website takedown crew is back. The Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Cyber Fighters Tuesday announced via Pastebin that they would resume their Operation Ababil distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks this week against U.S. financial institutions.
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Hackers take down popular Rasperry Pi website with DDOS attack
Raspberry Pi’s website went black after unknown hackers brought it down with a distributed denial of service attack (DDOS). The website has since been restored.
“For those interested, this one’s quite hardcore: We’re seeing a SYN flood from a botnet ... read more
