FortGuard Anti-DDoS Firewall v2.2 released on 12 Feb, 2009
.Improved the UI.
New style of DNS amplification can yield powerful DDoS attacks
New style of DNS amplification can yield powerful DDoS attacks
Angela Moscaritolo February 04, 2009
A new class of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks...
Two young people terrorized big Russian firms with DDOS-attacks
Two young people terrorized big Russian firms with DDOS-attacks
January 30, 2009 - 8:22pm | author: ayny
It was announced that two young people, residents of Ufah, were arrested by the Department”K” of Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia and its...
Techwatch weathers DDoS extortion attack
Techwatch weathers DDoS extortion attack
By John Leyden
30th January 2009 11:19 GMT
Techwatch is back online following a sustained denial of service attack that left the digital TV news site unavailable for two days earlier this week...
FortGuard Anti-DDoS Firewall v2.1 released
FortGuard Anti-DDoS Firewall v2.1 released on 28 Jan, 2009
. Improved ANI - DDoS kernel algorithm
. Fixed IP identification bug
. Licensing is more reliable
Russian 'cybermilitia' knocks Kyrgyzstan offline
Russian 'cybermilitia' knocks Kyrgyzstan offline
Same tactics used in '08 attack against Georgia, but hackers getting faster, says researcher
January 28, 2009
A Russian "cybermilitia" has knocked the central Asian country of Kyrgyzstan off the Internet, a security researcher said today, demonstrating that the hackers are able to respond even faster than last year, when they waged a digital war against another former Soviet republic, Georgia...
OcUK puts £10K bounty on the heads of DDoS varmints
Overclockers.co.uk is offering a £10,000 ($13,830) reward for information leading to the conviction of attackers who have targeted the technology enthusiast site in a DDoS lasting over a week.
Internet group Anonymous hacks No Cussing Club's website, owner's e-mail account
Internet group Anonymous hacks No Cussing Club's website, owner's e-mail account
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The No Cussing Club's website at 9:26 a.m. on January 21. (EST).
Image: Internet group Anonymous via nocussing.com.
Image: Internet group Anonymous via nocussing.com.
Wikinews has learned that the internet group known only as "Anonymous" has hacked the website of the No Cussing Club (NCC), nocussing.com, for at least two days in a row. On day one, the group hacked into the website, replacing the content with links to images of alleged e-mail conversations. The e-mails appear to be from the founder's e-mail account, accusing organization members of forgery and using the site for their own personal financial gains. The website was also replaced with Anonymous's logo and a message. On January 22, they again attacked the website, by means of a Distributed Denial-of-service attack (DDoS), bringing it offline periodically throughout the day. Anonymous attacked the Scientology website in 2008 with a DDoS attack, taking it off-line for at least two days.
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GoDaddy.com Attack Sends Thousands Offline
By David Hamilton, January 15, 2009
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Due to a mysterious distributed denial-of-service attack, several thousand websites hosted by GoDaddy.com (www.godaddy.com) intermittently flickered on and offline Wednesday morning for a period of hours.
CNET blogger Bob Walsh reported the outage Wednesday, writing that GoDaddy communications manager Nick Fuller stated that while many sites were interrupted, neither e-mail nor DNS services were interrupted. Also, while tech support reported that the DDoS attack made several thousand sites unreachable, this only represents a very small percentage of GoDaddy's customer base.
isoHunt Recovers From DDoS Attack
January 12, 2009
If you have an RSS feed of isoHunt and wonder why it went dead today, the reason is threefold. First, isoHunt suffered a DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack from what Gary Fung, administrator of the site, calls "russian user agents". The site actually suffered 2 intentional attacks, and one incidental.
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