The website 4chan was taken offline Sunday by a distributed denial-of-service attack, and the team behind 4chan is still struggling to get back online. On Sunday morning, 4chan's status blog rep
Hackers Release New DDoS Tool
A German hacker group has released a new DDoS tool designed to enable a single PC to take down a Web server using a secure connection."The THC-SSL-DOS tool ... purportedly exploits a flaw in Secu
DDoS and SQL injection are main topics on hacking forums
IDG News Service - Distributed denial of service and SQL injection are the main types of attack discussed on hacking forums, according to new research from security vendor Imperva.Underground discussi
US parole board accuses Amnesty NZ of DDoS attack, blocks server
UPDATED: Amnesty NZ's emails petitioning for clemency for Troy Davis were "most definitely not" a DDoS attack, Brett Roberts has said.The former Microsoft NZ Chief Technology Officer (
Oracle pushes emergency DDoS vulnerability patch
Ellison's firm pushes out a rare out-of-cycle patch to fix a DDoS vulnerability.By Tom Brewster, 19 Sep 2011 at 10:30Oracle has issued an out-of-cycle patch for a denial of service flaw in the Apache
Anonymous calls for the release of arrested members
Protesting Anonymous-related arrests across the world, the ubiquitous hacker collective has issued a statement asserting that those detained and charged for distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack
Workarounds Issued For 'Apache Killer' Attack
Aug 25, 2011 | 08:36 PM
By Kelly Jackson Higgins
Dark Reading
A working proof-of-concept christened the "Apache Killer" released this week uses an as-yet unpatched flaw in the server software that pounds Apache servers with a DDoS attack -- and all it would take is one machine to bring the server to its knees.
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DDoS attack sends Hong Kong stock exchange back to paper
Security | 15 Aug 2011 : The Hong Kong stock exchange has been forced to resort to using e-mails and newspaper adverts in order to communicate with investors after two days of sustained DDoS att
DDoS Attack Tool Spreads Among Criminal Undergroups
Cyber criminals are finding new ways to throttle networks and launch denial of service attacks with a Distributed Denial of Service [DDoS] tool now circulating on the criminal underground, researchers
DDoS Attack in March Likely N.Korean Work, Says McAfee
By Martyn Williams, IDG News
The cyber attacks that paralyzed a handful of major South Korean websites earlier this year were almost certainly carried out by North Korea or parties allied with the country, computer security company McAfee said Tuesday in a report.
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