DDOS attacks on Iran's web-sites: what a stupid idea!

 

Mon, 06/15/2009 - 7:27am

This was to be expected: as the protests in Tehran do not seem to calm down, the warring parties are sparring in cyberspace. As ThreatChaost points out, the plot has now thickened: now anyone with an Internet connection knows how participate in a DDOS attack on Ahmadinejad's web-sites! Thank you, Twitter!

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DDoS attack chokes Chinese net surfing

Five-province traffic jam By Dan Goodin in San Francisco • Get more from this author Posted in Security, 21st May 2009 22:28 GMT Free whitepaper – The power of collaboration within uni

Hacker Pleads Guilty To The 2008 DDoS Attacks On The Scientology Websites!

Do you remember last year when the Church of Scientology's website was attacked? This cyber attack hit news headlines and was between the Church of Scientology and a specific group of young Internet

Web Sites Disrupted By Attack on Register.com

 

Web site host and domain name registrar Register.com has been the target of a sustained attack this week, disrupting service for thousands of customers.

The attacks began on Wednesday, causing a three-hour outage for many Web sites that rely on the company for hosting and/or use the company's domain name system (DNS) servers, said Roni Jacobson, executive vice president at Register.com.

UltraDNS Service Brought Down by DOS Attack

  Om Malik | Wednesday, April 1, 2009 | 7:33 AM PT |  UltraDNS, a managed domain name service (DNS) service owned by NeuStar, went offline on Tuesda

FortGuard DDos Monitor & FortGuard Anti-DDoS firewall upgraded

FortGuard DDos Monitor updated to v1.3

(1) Strengthened the ability of capturing attacking packets, improved monitoring efficiency.

(2) GUI improved.

FortGuard Anti-DDoS firewall upgraded to v2.2 Build 90325

(1) Enhanced the identification ablility of attacking IPs.
(2) Some of the new attacking characteristic codes were added.
(3) GUI improved.
 

DDoS attack damaged public civil service for the first time

2009/03/10 By Jang, Dong-joon, Kim, In-soon

Interne attack has caused unprecedented incident in which on line civil service of public agencies suspended for 5 days before restoration. On March 4, the home page of Game Rating Board was attacked by DDoS and became inaccessible at 5:40 P.M...

Mininova Hit By Massive DDoS Attack

  Written by Ernesto on March 07, 2009 

Mininova, one of the leading BitTorrent sites, has been suffering from a massive DDoS attack over the past few days. Originating from a botnet spanning three continents, the attacks vary in strength and are causing the site to be completely inaccessible at times. The Mininova team is working on a solution.

DDoS attacks are not an unusual event for BitTorrent sites, with smaller sites suffering the effects more often than they’d like...

Confirmed: Time Warner Cable users impacted by DDoS attack


A slowdown, if not shutdown, of DNS processing is plaguing customers in California and elsewhere.
By Scott M. Fulton, III | Published February 26, 2009, 5:20 PM

When users of Time Warner Cable...

Easy upgrade to FortGuard Anti-DDoS Firewall v2.2: (for v2.0/2.1 users only)


1. Download the upgrade file (http://www.fortguard.com/upgradetov2.2.rar)  from our website and unzip.

2. Stop "FortGuard DDoS Firewall" service from system service manager. (Start->Control Panel->Administrative Tools->Services->FortGuard DDoS Firewall->"Stop the service")
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