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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 286 days ago
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http://www.online-casinos.com/news/news6272.aspOnline-Casinos.comFebruary 20, 2008 Resurgence of criminal activity warning The spectre of DDOS (Distributed Denial of Service) assaults again occupied the minds of IT and security officials at online gambling sites this week as reports surfaced of attacks on major online poker websites. The online poker information portal Poker-king.com advised that many online poker and casino properties have suffered outages, naming Full Tilt Poker as probably the most visi read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 265 days ago
Via: http://go.theregister.com | Tags: rentabot gang rises ddos ashes comments Discuss  
Beware of the 3D screensaverA notorious malware gang that rented out botnets by the hour has resurfaced after being knocked off line two months ago by a rival band of criminals.… read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 259 days ago
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The flood continuesDSL Reports, a website for broadband users, popped back online after being taken down by a distributed denial of service attack. At least 1,100 bot-infested machines took part in the assault, which at one point directed nearly 48MBps of malicious data at the site.… read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 247 days ago
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http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=149497By Kelly Jackson HigginsSenior EditorDark ReadingMARCH 28, 2008Security watchdog site CastleCops is currently under yet another distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attack. The anti-spam, anti-malware site manned by volunteers has been under siege from waves of botnet traffic since Wednesday.CastleCops is no stranger to DDOS attacks -- it gets hit regularly, with its most recent attack back in August -- but this one took a different spin on an old trick. read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 244 days ago
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That's 1,300 attacks per dayTo appreciate the strain online miscreants are putting on internet infrastructure, consider this: As much as three per cent of the net's traffic is malicious garbage designed to inflict damage one party or another, Arbor Networks estimates.… read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 244 days ago
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http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/04/ddos-packets-ar.htmlBy Ryan Singel Threat LevelWired.comApril 02, 2008 One out of every 50 packets on the internet is malicious junk intended simply to clog the tubes, according to a high level traffic analysis by Arbor Networks.Distributed Denial of Service attacks or DDoSes aim to bring a site down by bombarding it with fake requests for a web page or image. It's like having 1,000 people continually crank calling a company -- the real customers can't get through.A read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 215 days ago
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http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9933746-7.htmlBy Elinor MillsNews BlogMay 1, 2008A distributed denial-of-service attack on Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty this week is the latest attack in a resurgence of hacktivism (hacking + activism) in the Internet underground, a security researcher says.The attack knocked out or interrupted eight RFL/RL sites, starting with Belarus and including Kosovo, Russia, and Azerbaijan, according to the news agency's Web site.At one point the Web sites were getting up to 50,00 read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 161 days ago
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(Un)happy TalkingCitizens of the Marshall Islands in the South Pacific have been left without a functioning email systems following a denial of service attack on the country's sole ISP.… read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 135 days ago
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Black deeds on the Black SeaA denial of service attack hit government websites in the former Soviet republic of Georgia over the weekend amid growing diplomatic tensions between the country and Russia.… read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 50 days ago
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From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 03:20:00 -0500 (CDT)http://english.vietnamnet.vn/tech/2008/10/808218/VietNamNet Bridge13/10/2008 On October 10, 2008, the police arrested a high school student in the central province of Quang Nam. He was discovered to be the culprit of the DDOS attack that has stirred up the IT community for the last few days.The decision to arrest the student was released 20 hours after the rush investigation made by the High-tech Crime Fighting Agency un read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 47 days ago
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Up to 10 years in the clinkA New Jersey man has admitted he participated in January's high-profile cyber attack on the Church of Scientology that took its website offline and caused as much as $70,000 worth of damage.… read more »
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