DDoS in the press

 

DDoS is still the elephant in the room
But a different kind of beast
By Andrea Petrou, TechEye, 20th April 2011

A McAfee report shows energy providers are getting hit by some serious DDoS attacks.
By Tom Brewster, The Register, 19th April 2011

Scottish news site hit by 'DDoS attack' in run-up to elections
By John Leyden, The Register, 19th April 2011

Russian pres fumes at mystery DDoS hack
'I couldn't update my blog', Medvedev seethes
By John Leyden, The Register, 8th April 2011

SpyEye gets new DDoS functionality
By Dancho Danchev, ZD Net, 10th March 2011

South Korean websites targeted by distributed denial-of-service attacks
By SC Staff, SC Mag, 4th March 2011

WordPress taken down by extremely large DDoS attack
By Dan Raywood, SC Mag, 4th March 2011

Major international bank hit by DDoS that leaves service interrupted for several days
By Dan Raywood, SC Mag, 28th February 2011

Anonymous hacking group uses IRC channels to co-ordinate DDoS attacks
By Info Security US, 25th January 2011

In the chatroom with the cyber guerrillas
By Marius Bosch and Georgina Prodhan, Reuters, 19th January 2011

Trend Micro expert predicts escalating DDoS attacks
By Info Security US, 4th January 2011

Anonymous and DDoS: I predict a riot
By Rik Ferguson, ZDNet Australia, 2nd January 2011

Cyber-sabotage and espionage top 2011 security fears
By Maggie Shiels, BBC, 30th December 2010

Companies remained concerned about mitigating DDoS attacks following Anonymous' pro-WikiLeaks attacks
By Dan Raywood, 16th December 2010

WikiLeaks: government websites could be hacked in revenge attacks
By Jon Swaine, The Telegraph, 13th December 2010

Anonymous attack on Amazon.com fails, hackers move on
Amazon prepared for DDoS attack
By Dean Wilson, TechEye, 10th December 2010

MasterCard and websites of Joe Lieberman and Sarah Palin latest to be hit by Anonymous DDoS attacks in support of WikiLeaks
By Dan Raywood, 8th December 2010

Mastercard 'hit by Anonymous Wikileaks revenge attacks'
Internet hacktivists have claimed they brought down the Mastercard website.
By BBC, 8th December 2010

Evil new DDoS botnet lurking in the Darkness
By ComputerWorld, 7th December 2010

Financial vice tightens on Wikileaks, hacktivistas retaliate
Assange Swiss bank, Mastercard sucked into imbroglio
By John Leyden, The Register, 7th December 2010

PostFinance hit by ongoing distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, following decision to freeze WikiLeaks' accounts
By Dan Raywood, 7th December 2010

PayPal hit by DDoS attack after spurning Wikileaks
By Darren Pauli, ZDNet Australia, 6th December 2010

Don't let the DDoS Mafia make you an offer you can't refuse!
By Jim Leach at Neustar, CIO, 29th October 2010

Botnet for Sale Business Going Strong, Security Researchers Say
By Brian Prince, eWeek, 25th October 2010

This week "Operation Payback" targets Gene Simmons, MPAA
Anonymous is at it again.
By wconeybeer, Myce, 16th October 2010

The truth about the DDOS threat, the elephant in the room
Wake up!
By Tamlin Magee, TechEye, 15th October 2010

UK government to spend £1bn on cybersecurity
The UK government is reportedly planning to spend £1bn on an effort to boost cybersecurity defenses.
By Info Security US, 15th October 2010

'Operation Payback' Caused More than 550 Hours of Composite Downtime
Anonymous group caused a total of 742 service interruptions to 11 sites in 20 days
By PRNewsWire, 11th October 2010

Ministry of Sound floored by Anonymous
More payback for file-sharer harassment
By John Leyden, The Register, 4th October 2010

ACS:Law's mocking of 4chan could cost it £500k
Doin' it for the lulz
By Chris Williams, The Register, 28th September 2010

DDoS against legal firm leads to leak of Sky Broadband customers' details and alleged user habits
By Dan Raywood, 28th September 2010

British Phonographic Industry set to be hit by Anonymous-led DDoS after American sites are brought down in protest against file sharing
By Dan Raywood, 20th September 2010

Chinese cybercrooks offer DDoS-for-hire
Where do you want our zombies to go today?
By John Leyden, The Register, 14th September 2010

SMB Cloud Is A Hacker's Paradise
Tim Negris, 9th September 2010

Film studios 'launch cyber attacks on torrent sites'
Emma Woollacott, 9th September 2010

DDoS botnet family discovered targeting scores of sites
By Angela Moscaritolo, 24th August 2010

Scammers Make DDoS Threats Against Website Owners
By Lucian Constantin, 18th August 2010

80 million websites could be compromised due to a flaw in Adobe ColdFusion
By Dan Raywood, 11th August 2010

End-users say a DDoS attack would be fair in a wartime situation, as comments are made on who would police such activity
By Dan Raywood, 4th August 2010

S Korea's DDoS attacks come from last year's zombie computers
8th July 2010

Telstra Attacks Hits $50M Oz Lotto
By David Richards, 30th June 2010

YouTube used to showcase DDoS software
By Zeljka Zorz, 28th June 2010

Two Korean govt. websites attacked by hackers
12th June 2010

Jewish Chronicle confirms that it was hit by a denial-of-service attack on Monday following Gaza flotilla incident
By Dan Raywood, 2nd June 2010

Second man jailed over Scientology DDoS attacks
A year and $20,000 down
By John Leyden, The Register, 25th May 2010

Rental of a botnet to launch a DDoS attack is available at under £6 an hour
By SC Staff, 25th May 2010

China-based DDOS attack hits Australian multinationals
By Warwick Ashford, 15th April 2010

Botnet of almost 13 million compromised computers shut down
By Dan Raywood, 4th March 2010

Cyber attacks against Australia 'will continue'
By Zoe Kleinman, 12th February 2010

12 Hours Later, The Anonymous Campaign Against The Australian Government Continues
By Duncan Riley, 10th February 2010

Top 10 botnets and their impact
By Zeljka Zorz, 9th December 2009

DDoS attacks on the increase, McAfee report warns
By Warwick Ashford, 2nd November 2009

On our extended downtime, Amazon and what's coming
By Jesper, 4th October 2009

Dominance of the internet is no longer the US's domain
By Elizabeth Judge, 30th September 2009

Internet meltdown threat: Conficker worm refuses to turn
By Asher Moses, 22nd September 2009

Joe Wilson?s Payments Provider Reports DDoS Attack
By Pete Cashmore, 12th September 2009

Twitter hack spawns spam and scareware scams
DDoS campaign opens Pandora's Box
By John Leyden, The Register, 10th August 2009

How Did Hackers Cripple Twitter?
By Dan Fletcher, Time, 6th August 2009

Security researchers unpick botnet economics
Baron Samedi's nice little earner
By John Leyden, The Register, 24th July 2009

Who's behind the Eircom sabotage?
By Fiona McCann, Irish Times, 18th July 2009

US websites buckle under sustained DDoS attacks
By Dan Goodin, The Register, 8th July 2009

Michael Jackson is the new DDoS
net.effect, 2nd July 2009

DDOS the new Molotov Cocktail?
By Richard, Altogether Digital, 19th June 2009