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Article | 4/06/2013 Possibly related DDoS attacks cause DNS hosting outages
Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that could be related have in the past few days slammed the DNS servers of at least three providers of do...
Article | 10/05/2013 Academic institutions urged to take steps to prevent DNS amplification attacks
Colleges and universities are being encouraged to scrutinize their systems to keep them from being hijacked in DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) at...
Article | 27/03/2013 DDoS attack against Spamhaus was reportedly the largest in history
A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack of unprecedented scale that targeted an international spam-fighting organisation last week ended up caus...
Article | 14/12/2012 DDoS attacks against US banks peaked at 60 Gbps
Some of the distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that targeted the websites of U.S. financial institutions this week have peaked at 60 Gbps, a...
Article | 25/10/2012 Open DNS resolvers increasingly abused to amplify DDoS attacks, report says
Open and misconfigured DNS (Domain Name System) resolvers are increasingly used to amplify distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, according to ...
Article | 24/11/2011 Largest DDoS attack so far this year peaked at 45 Gbps, says company
A week-long DDoS attack that launched a flood of traffic at an Asian e-commerce company in early November was the biggest such incident so far this ye...
Article | 11/06/2011 IPv6 Day only a beginning, researchers say
World IPv6 Day boosted the amount of native IPv6 traffic on the Internet, but it mostly increased the use of transitional protocols that won't help to...
Article | 9/06/2011 So far, so good with World IPv6 Day
With World IPV6 Day in full swing, the test flight of the Internet's new communications protocol is going smoothly.
Article | 18/02/2011 Bahrain clamps down on Web traffic as violence escalates
Internet traffic in Bahrain, the Persian Gulf kingdom wracked by a third day of protests, has declined by about 20%, likely as a result of more aggres...
Article | 3/02/2011 Blocking Internet cost Egypt at least $90M, says OECD
The Egyptian government's five-day block of Internet services cost the national economy at least US$90 million, the Organization for Economic Cooperat...
Article | 2/02/2011 DDoS attacks made worse by firewalls
The rising tide of distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS) is being made much worse by a tendency to mis-deploy firewalls and intrusion preventio...
Article | 1/02/2011 Arbor: Mobile networks trail fixed line in security
Mobile network operators are trailing their fixed-line counterparts by several years in regards to security, with many experiencing outages and other ...
Article | 1/02/2011 As IPv4 disappears, transition poses hazards
With the last IPv4 addresses about to be allocated, the good news is that IT managers -- at least in the U.S. and Europe -- don't suddenly have to get...
Article | 1/12/2010 DoS attacks hammer WikiLeaks for second day running
WikiLeaks, the focus of attention since it released a quarter-million U.S. diplomatic cables two days ago, is again under a denial-of-service (DoS) at...
Article | 20/11/2010 China did not hijack 15% of the Net, counters researcher
Talk that China hijacked 15% of the Internet earlier this year is overblown, a researcher said today.