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Dirt Jumper DDoS Toolkit Riddled With Vulnerabilities

By Mike Wheatley | Aug 17 2012

A security vendor has turned the tables on malicious hackers by releasing details of a vulnerability in a popular toolkit used to launch distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against corporate websites. The toolkit in question is the infamous Dirt Jumper, which is based on the RussKill application that has become one [...]

RT News Hit By DDoS Attack, Taken Offline For Three Hours

By Mike Wheatley | Aug 17 2012

The cyber wars are heating up, with the popular Russian government funded RT News becoming the latest victim to fall foul of a massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that knocked the site out of action for around three hours earlier today. RT News, whose pro-Russian government stance has seen them [...]

WikiLeaks Bounces Back With Reverse Proxy Protection Against DDoS Attacks

By Mike Wheatley | Aug 14 2012

It’s business as usual once again for the folks at WikiLeaks (if such a thing is possible) as the document-sharing site appears to be back online following a sustained distribute denial of service (DDoS) attack that lasted for more than one week. Julian Assange and his team will no doubt be extending [...]

Dutch Opposition Party D66 Stands on “DDoS Legalization” Election Plank

By Isha Suri | Jul 2 2012

Distributed denial of service (DDoS) is a hot topic on for much of cybersecurity and a mainstay of Internet-based protests, and perhaps this is the reason that political parties have taken it up as their election manifesto! Yes, you heard it right. Dutch opposition party D66–a party that calls itself “a progressive [...]

LulzSec Hackers Admit DDoS Attacks on High Profile Sites, including CIA, NHS, and Sony

By Isha Suri | Jun 26 2012

Two of the LulzSec hackers, one of the most notorious internet hackers group, have entered the guilty pleas today for disabling some high profile websites and performing Distributed Denial of Service attacks. Ryan Cleary, 24, and Jake “Topiary” Davis, 19 have admitted hacking CIA, National Health Service, News International, Sony, Nintendo, Arizona [...]

Starting With Blank Slate, Dell Engineers Best-in-Class Converged Infrastructure Solutions

By Jeff Pike | Jun 13 2012

Darren Thomas, Vice President/General Manager of Dell Enterprise Storage, took time out from the Dell Storage Forum 2012 in Boston this week to talk to Dave Vellante and Stu Miniman of Wikibon.org as part of theCube’s conference coverage (full video below). Here’s a rundown of some of the major messages Thomas conveyed regarding [...]

The Pirate Bay and Wikileaks Undergo Massive DDoS Attack from Unknown Source

By Kyt Dotson | May 17 2012

In what looks like some sort of punishment from an unknown source The Pirate Bay and Wikileaks have been hunkered under a sustained distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack for much of this week. Steve Ragan at SecurityWeek is reporting that TPB has gone to Facebook to say that the attack started on Tuesday [...]

The Pirate Bay Delivers Tongue-lashing to Anonymous over Virgin Media DDoS

By Kyt Dotson | May 10 2012

The Pirate Bay is unhappy with hackers from Anonymous who have taken it upon themselves to punish Virgin Media for following the edicts of the UK High Court. Cells of the hacktivist collective have recently placed the ISP in their sights for a massive DDoS after the decision requested that ISPs censor [...]

Day 3 Of the Oracle-Google Trial: A Blank Page Testimony

By Mellisa Tolentino | Apr 19 2012

Quick Recap: The Oracle-Google intellectual property infringement trial started on Monday, jury members were selected, and CEOs from both sides, Larry Page of Google and Larry Ellison of Oracle, already took the stand but Google’s CEO’s time on the stand was cut short on the second day, so he took the stand [...]

Anonymous Hacker Havittaja Slams DDoS Into CIA, US Department of Justice Websites

By Kyt Dotson | Apr 16 2012

In the wake of DDoS attacks against the UK Home Office, and the CIA, the International Business Times brings us the news that Anonymous cells have continued to disrupt government websites across the globe by washing away the US Department of Justice Website with a DDoS attack. The initial salvo against the cia.gov and [...]

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