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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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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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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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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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Three US hackers took out key parts of the internet in 2016 because they wanted to make money on Minecraft
Eventually, Mirai's creators decided to publish its source code online, to try and throw any invest…
Shona Ghosh
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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 …