Ddos articles

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  Spam war caused failure at critical internet exchange center

  By Russell Brandom on March 28, 2013 11:10 am + 59 comments

  The dust is settling from this week's Dutch DDoS attacks — by some accounts, the largest Continue reading…

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  'Largest' public denial of service attack in internet history linked to European spam dispute

  By Carl Franzen on March 27, 2013 12:19 pm + 17 comments

  If your internet service has been running slower than usual lately, your cable company may not be Continue reading…

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  Thug mentality: How two dick jokes exploded into DDoS and death threats

  By Russell Brandom on March 21, 2013 06:46 pm + 940 comments

  Sunday afternoon, Adria Richards was sitting in a lecture hall at Python's PyCon conference when she Continue reading…

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  Security blogger Brian Krebs suffers simultaneous cyber attack, police raid

  By Carl Franzen on March 15, 2013 06:47 pm + 35 comments

  Brian Krebs, an influential cyber security blogger previously with The Washington Post who now runs Continue reading…

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  DDoS: how a tool built by web activists became the ultimate weapon for online oppression

  By Russell Brandom on January 28, 2013 11:30 am + 86 comments

  The most important denial-of-service attack in 2012 didn't make headlines; if you weren't following Continue reading…

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  Anonymous petitions the White House to make DDoS attacks a legal form of protesting

  By Ben Kersey on January 9, 2013 05:14 pm + 63 comments

  Anonymous has set up a WhiteHouse.gov online petition to try and make distributed denial of service Continue reading…

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  US government has 'no doubt' Iran is behind recent cyberattacks on banks, says NYT

  By Adi Robertson on January 9, 2013 02:01 am + 47 comments

  American officials may be blaming a series of recent bank denial of service attacks on Iran, The New Continue reading…

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  Anonymous 'Operation Payback' hackers convicted for costly DDoS attacks

  By Kimber Streams on December 6, 2012 12:44 pm + 29 comments

  Four Anonymous hacktivists have been convicted of conspiracy for DDoS attacks that cost major banks Continue reading…

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  Go Daddy denies Anonymous involved in site outage: 'it was not a denial of service attack'

  By Adi Robertson on September 11, 2012 12:10 pm + 39 comments

  Yesterday saw a major outage for GoDaddy.com and domains it helped host, keeping many sites offline Continue reading…

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  GoDaddy.com and hosted sites down, Anonymous claims credit (update: 'most' sites back online)

  By Adi Robertson on September 10, 2012 03:12 pm + 297 comments

  Web service Go Daddy has confirmed that it is working on problems with both its site and those that Continue reading…