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Online gamers and shoppers beware — you’re the biggest target for hackers after financial services
Gaming and consumer goods are the top two targets for unique distributed denial-of-service (DDoS…
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DDoS hack attacks are growing at an alarming rate
They're sometimes used as threat in ransom demands - pay up or we'll take your website offline - as…
Rob Price
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2 Israeli teens have been arrested for allegedly running a huge hacking tool
Following publication, Krebs' blog was targeted by a "heavy and sustained denial-of-service attack,…
Rob Price
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The Chinese government won't stop hacking US companies
In a breakdown on how the DDoS attack functioned, security researcher Erik Hjelmvik says he believe…
Rob Price
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New Zealand's stock exchange was shut down on 2 straight days after a cyberattack likely launched by a 'mafia type' group
"These are quite sophisticated gangs and thinking along the lines of mafia type people is about rig…
Saloni Sardana
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Australia's census website crashed and no-one is sure whether it was hackers or just incompetence
A digital attack map that maps DDoS activity around the world does not show unusual activity in Aus…
Rob Price
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Ukraine's IT army is a 'world first' in cyberwarfare but it's a major gamble for the government, experts say
Ukraine's IT army says it has launched thousands of attacks on Russian organizations since Russia l…
Cameron Manley
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People think China has gone to war against GitHub
Earlier in March, GreatFire's website was also targeted by a DDoS directly. At the time, the organi…
Rob Price
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A Sony Exec's Plane Was Diverted After Hackers Tweeted A Phony Bomb Threat To American Airlines
The hacker group, which goes by Lizard Squad, also claimed responsibility for taking down Sony's Pl…
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Google just saved the journalist who was hit by a 'record' cyberattack
Now just days later, Krebs is back online behind the protection of Google, which offers a little-kn…
Paul Szoldra
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Telegram suffered a huge cyber attack during the Hong Kong protests, and it's blaming China
The current mass protests in Hong Kong are in response to a proposed extradition bill that would al…
Isobel Asher Hamilton,Isobel …
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WORLD'S LARGEST BITCOIN EXCHANGE: We Are Suffering A Massive Attack On Our Servers
Does this mean that we are giving up fighting lag? Hell, no. We are working on it by creating a new…
Matthew Boesler
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The Biggest Cyber Attack In History Is Taking Place Right Now
A DDoS attack of 50 gigabits per second is usually enough to take out a major bank. Spamhaus is see…
Dylan Love
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Meet the crack team who just exposed 'The Great Cannon,' China's insanely powerful hacking tool
What makes the Great Cannon so interesting is that it's a sort of Janus-faced attack mechanism. Its…
Cale Guthrie Weissman
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REPORT: Mt. Gox Faced 150,000 Attacks Per Second
The Tokyo-based exchange, which filed for bankruptcy protection in February and admitted that it ha…
Agence France Presse
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The 'Biggest Cyberattack In History' Was Nothing Compared To A Targeted Attack
Earlier this year, Brian Krebs coverage showed how a D/DOS acted as a smoke screen for a bank heist…
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IoT malware attacks up by 400% this year: Report
Malware attacks against Internet of Things (IoT) and Operational Technology (OT) devices have incre…
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There's a major problem with the internet that's preventing websites from loading
Starting at 11:10 UTC on October 21th-Friday 2016 we began monitoring and mitigating a DDoS attack …