Pro-Russian group NoName057(16) uses a denial-of-service tool to mobilize volunteers and disrupt sites and organization tied ...
Anonymous is building a bigger, more vicious weapon to replace its current DDoS tool. The new attack program, called #RefRef, is being developed in time for the Blackhat conference in Las Vegas and ...
DDoS attacks dominate the news nowadays. Large companies are frequently harassed by Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, with great damage. Prolexic, a company that offers security services ...
The concept of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks finally entered the mainstream public consciousness this month after assaults on the websites of Visa, MasterCard and PayPal made front page ...
How hard is it to launch a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack? Arguably, the hacktivist collective Anonymous has made launching DDoS attacks look easy, due to its high-profile DDoS campaigns ...
In a presentation at SOURCE Boston, Dr. Jose Nazario of Arbor Networks stated that DDoS applications are moving from the domain of trained attackers to tools for the average person to voice a ...
The researchers first detected the tool, a newer version of the Russkill bot known as Dirt Jumper, as it was executing DDoS attacks against two Russian Web sites -- a gaming website, and a site used ...
The cyber landscape, just like the political landscape, has created a pressure cooker of activists looking to create disruptions. Since November last year, it was reported that nearly 6 billion data ...
Security firm Prolexic has turned the tables on DDoS attackers, publishing a report revealing a swathe of basic vulnerabilities in the popular Dirt Jumper family of tools. Security firm Prolexic has ...