August 30, 2017

WireX botnet offers glimpse of Android DDoS threat

A group of companies has worked together to target a botnet built via Android malware

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August 18, 2017

‘Pulse wave’ DDoS – another way of blasting sites offline

If there's one thing we've learned, it's that any new way of DDoSing will reveal that there are a huge number of undefended devices online

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August 03, 2017

News in brief: WannaCry ‘kill switch’ man detained; Firefox file encryption; DDoS fails to persuade

Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the news!

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July 04, 2017

News in brief: China tightens Great Firewall; student charged over DDoS attacks; health data posted online

Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the news

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June 29, 2017

Who was to blame for what looked like a DDoS attack on the AA? That would be … the AA

AA members not unreasonably complied when they received an email warning them to change their passwords ... but the AA's servers couldn't cope

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May 11, 2017

News in brief: laptop ban could be extended; DDoS hits news sites; Taiwan might block Google DNS

Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the news

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April 27, 2017

Discovery of 8,800 servers sends warning to Asian cybercriminals

Move shows the importance of international co-operation to take down cybercrime at its roots

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January 20, 2017

Protestors urged to try and swamp White House website

As the inauguration of Donald Trump gets under way in Washington DC, one activist is calling for a DIY DDoS-style attack - which may not be legal

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January 19, 2017

The Mirai DDoS botnet: Brian Krebs claims to know who wrote it

How do you trace the source of an attack that came from network devices located all around the globe? Krebs thinks he's done it...

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