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GitHub targeted by massive Chinese DDoS attack

By Duncan Riley | Mar 29 2015

Git repository hosting service GitHub Inc., has been under a massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) since Thursday with China named as the culprit. GitHub said in a blog post that the DDoS attack was the largest in their history and explained that it involves a wide combination of attack vectors. The [...]

Infographic: Black Lotus report reveals DDoS is common, leads to customer churn

By Kyt Dotson | Mar 3 2015

In 2014, distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks continued to be a massive concern for numerous Internet services. This was especially signaled by the Christmas Day siege of Xbox Live and PlayStation Network by infamous Internet mayhem crew Lizard Squad. A survey by DDoS attack mitigation service Black Lotus shows that while DDoS [...]

Facebook adds “fill in the blank” gender option for users

By Eric David | Feb 27 2015

Facebook Inc had already expanded the gender options on its social network to 58 different choices, and now it has expanded that number even further by adding a “fill in the blank” option that allows users to input whatever they want. Facebook has previously run into trouble with some gender identity groups with [...]

Lizard Squad is back: Xbox Live and Daybreak Games Company face DDoS battering

By Kyt Dotson | Feb 17 2015

The great Christmas Day siege of Xbox and PlayStation doesn’t seem to be enough for notorious Internet mayhem group Lizard Squad who have continued their campaign of denial of service attacks against gaming companies. The crew is back and has claimed credit for DDoS, or distributed denial of service, attacks against Xbox [...]

Arbor report: Hacktivist and gamer groups are major sources of DDoS attacks

By Saroj Kar | Feb 2 2015

A new report says that the number of DDoS web attacks involving gamers and hacktivists has greatly increased in the past decade or so. These attacks typically involve attacking websites with massive surges of data and knocking them offline. The report, compiled byArbor Networks and cited by BBC News, examines 10 years of distributed denial [...]

Lizard Squad DDoS-for-hire website compromised, stored passwords in plain text

By Kyt Dotson | Jan 19 2015

The Lizard Squad, an Internet mayhem group, has recently been caught with their proverbial pants down when an attacker compromised the customer database of the group’s recently released distributed denial of service (DDoS) for hire service. The service, the “Lizard Stresser,” allows paying customers to trigger attacks against websites and networks that [...]

Lizard Squad and the DDoS-for-hire ecology explained by NexusGuard

By Kyt Dotson | Jan 13 2015

Recently, Internet mayhem group Lizard Squad made news by ruining Christmas Day for Xbox Live and PlayStation Network users. Afterwards the group unveiled a distributed denial of service (DDoS) tool offered to the public that allows people to use the DDoS infrastructure to boot companies offline for a few seconds to a [...]

Looking back at DDoS in 2014: Most enduring attack trends

By Saroj Kar | Jan 5 2015

Attackers use distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks to disrupt websites by bombarding them with traffic from multiple sources, resulting in online service becoming unavailable for a period of time. As a tool of distraction and frustration, DDoS has been with the Internet almost since its inception and during 2014 it saw [...]

Internet mayhem crew Lizard Squad now offering DDoS service for hire

By Kyt Dotson | Dec 30 2014

Now infamous Internet mayhem crew Lizard Squad has just come out of an attention-grabbing holiday season with distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against major gaming networks on Christmas Day to offer a DDoS service for hire. The service, billed as a stress tester, the “Lizard Stresser” was announced by the group [...]

FBI allegedly investigating member of Lizard Squad after Christmas Day DDoS

By Kyt Dotson | Dec 29 2014

A member of now infamous Internet mayhem group, Lizard Squad, is allegedly under investigation by the FBI after speaking to the media about recent attacks against Microsoft’s Xbox Live and Sony Online Entertainment’s PlayStation Network on Christmas Day. The Lizard Squad member, who goes by the handle of “ryanc” or Ryan, According [...]

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