Search results for ddos

AlertPay hit by a large scale DDoS attackOpen in New Window
Avatar Posted by davemackey 35 days ago (http://blogs.zdnet.com)
Category: security | Tags alertpay, ddos, attack,
Dancho Danchev reports, "Timing is everything. Millions of account holders at privately owned online payment gateway AlertPay.com weren’t able to do business through the service yesterday, due to th read more »
Discuss     Bury

Spooks foils fictional Russian plotOpen in New Window
Avatar Posted by MargaretM 67 days ago (http://go.theregister.com)
Category: internet | Tags john ozimek, spooks, ddos, distributed denial of service,
John Ozimek comments on this week's episode of "Spooks" (episode 2) and speculates on the possibility of a DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack like the one portrayed would be plausible. read more »
Discuss     Bury

Georgia President’s web site under DDoS attack from Russian hackersOpen in New Window
Avatar Posted by MargaretM 168 days ago (http://blogs.zdnet.com)
Category: security | Tags georgia, presidents, web, site, ddos, attack, russian, hackers, Ryan Narraine,
During the weekend, the president of Georgia's web site was under a DDoS attack. Shadowserver, which originally picked up the attack, wrote "For over 24 hours the website of President Mikhail Saakashvili of Georgia (www.president.gov.ge) has been rendered unavailable due to a multi-pronged distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack." For more details see Ryan Narraine's well-written article. read more »
Discuss     Bury

Georgia president's Web site falls under DDOS attackOpen in New Window
Avatar Posted by sajid 170 days ago (http://www.networkworld.com)
Category: security | Tags georgia, presidents, web, ddos, attack, , , , ,
The Web site for the president of Georgia was knocked offline by a distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attack over the weekend, yet another in a series of cyberattacks attacks against countries expe read more »
Discuss     Bury

SlideShare Slammed with DDOS Attacks from ChinaOpen in New Window
Avatar Posted by davemackey 259 days ago (http://feeds.feedburner.com)
Category: software | Tags slideshare, slammed, ddos, attacks, china, , , , ,
Update: Just as I finished writing this post, I received word from the company that a third attack had begun.SlideShare, a Mountain View-based startup that lets you upload and embed PowerPoint presen read more »
Discuss     Bury

Estonia fines man for 'cyber war'.Open in New Window
Avatar Posted by davemackey 336 days ago (http://news.bbc.co.uk)
Category: security | Tags estonia, fine, cyber, war, ddos, dos, , , ,
The BBC reports on the fining of Dmitri Galushkevich over $2,000 USD for his participation in the massive DDoS attack against Estonian government and commercial institutions. Dmitri is the first indi read more »
Discuss     Bury

Spammers launch denial of service attacks against antispam sitesOpen in New Window
Avatar Posted by davemackey 482 days ago (http://arstechnica.com)
Category: security | Tags spammers, antispam, dos, ddos, , , , , ,
Spammers are launching massive DoS and DDoS attacks against anti-spam sites with computational power that is believed to be greater than the world's greatest supercomputers. read more »
Discuss     Bury

'Cyberwar' and Estonia's Panic AttackOpen in New Window
Avatar Posted by davemackey 501 days ago (http://blog.wired.com)
Category: security | Tags estonia, russia, ddos, dos, cyberwar, , , , ,
Kevin Poulsen blogs over at Wired about the recent cyber attacks on Estonia. read more »
Discuss     Bury