Hackers are launched a distributed denial-of-service(DDoS) attack against the Hawaii's Thirty Meter Telescope website, which is planned to be the Northern hemisphere’s largest, most advanced optical telescope. A group called Operation Green Right...

Github is a popular coding website used by programmers to collaborate on software development it was hit by massive denial of service attack. It is it pissed off the wrong pro-censorship group: The attack is aimed at two popular Github projects, ...

The Obama administration team was increasing strength to shut down botnets, current law gives courts the authority to issue injunctions for a limited scope of crimes, including certain kinds of fraud and illegal wiretapping. the Justice Departm...

Ancestry.com is the Generations Network, is a privately held Internet company based in Provo, Utah, United States. The largest for-profit genealogy company in the world, it operates a network of genealogical and historical record websites focused ...

In the past few years DDoS attacks have become more sophisticated and challenging to IT professionals. Many organizations have felt the impact of these attacks which caused significant downtime, ultimately leading to financial loss. According to ...

According to Spamfighter, ncapsula the specialist in website security has conducted one fresh research according to which, there is an increasing frequency and size of DDoS assaults, as online crooks make their attack techniques more advanced fo...

Few days back Mr.Edward Snowden document revealed GCHQ carried out denial of service (DoS) attacks against communications systems used by the hacktivist group. Anonymous Hactivists are started their own Operation Payback, which itself involved ca...

CloudFlare is a content delivery network and distributed domain name server service marketed as improving website performance and speed and providing security. On February 10, 2013 Cloudflare Europe and US-based servers are hit by a massive DDo...

An HTTP flood attack is a type of Layer 7 application attack that utilizes the standard valid GET/POST requests used to fetch information, as in typical URL data retrievals during SSL sessions.  An HTTP GET/POST flood is a volumetric attack that ...

New vulnerability found on the Snapchat app by  cyber security researcher Jamie Sanchez, that opens the iPhone up to denial-of-service attacks that can cause the device to freeze and crash. Snapchat app’s system that allows a hacker to send thous...

EZTV is the popular TV torrent distribution group. It is currently down because the website has been the target of a distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attack. EZTV administrators have told TorrentFreak that they have no idea when the site wi...

The digital gaming service Steam was down for over an hour on Friday after being targeted for a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. Two different groups or people claimed responsibility for attacks on Electronic Arts' login servers and St...

The Royal Bank of Scotland has suffering a couple of outages due to a distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attack, and one due to some technical issues. Shortly after, the financial institution issued an alert to warn users about the possibility o...

Security researcher Bogdan Alecu discovered a vulnerability that exposes Nexus devices to denial-of-service attacks based on a special type of SMS. Bogdan Alecu is a system administrator at Dutch IT services company Levi9, and affects all Android ...

This weekend the PC version of Battlefield 4 servers are target by distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, a number of virtual soldiers unable to compete in the Electronic Arts (EA) published first-person shooter. Employees with developer EA ...

The National Police Agency of South Korea warned the people that many Malware infected video games being offered in the South Korean markets with the purpose of launching Cyber attacks on the Country.The malware collects the location data and IP ad...

On September 24th World's 3rd Largest Bitcoin exchange BTC China, a platform where both Bitcoin and Chinese yuan are traded faced massive DDoS attack for continued nine hours, where no amplification techniques were used. Incapsula, Cloud-based sec...

Fraudsters target wire payment switch at US banks to steal millions using DDoS to divert the attention on fraudulent transactions. Cybercriminals are targeting the wire payment switch instead to hit directly into the banking accounts of individ...

What is a DDoS based attack? A Distributed Denial-of-Service attack (DDoS attack) is an attempt to make a machine or network resource unavailable to its intended users by using multiple hosts attempting to connect simultaneously to the victim ma...

An introduction of DDoS mitigation techniques focused on Cloud-based DDoS Mitigation solution, an approach implemented by many companies. Despite their prevalence, DDoS(Distributed Denial of Service) attacks have been erroneously considered min...