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Cybersecurity firm founder pleads guilty to organizing a DDoS attack

By Duncan Riley | Jan 22 2020

The founder and previous owner of a cybersecurity firm has confessed in court to hiring hackers to carry out a distributed denial-of-service attack. Tucker Preston, 22, from Macon, Georgia, the previous owner of BackConnect Inc., a company that claims to be “the new industry standard in DDoS mitigation,” pleaded guilty under the terms [...]

Wikipedia suffers outages in Europe, Middle East after sustained DDoS attack

By Duncan Riley | Sep 8 2019

Wikipedia was offline across several countries in Europe and the Middle East Friday after the popular online encyclopedia was targeted in a distributed denial-of-service attack. The Wikimedia Foundation Inc., the nonprofit organization that runs Wikipedia did not go into a lot of details about the attack but implied that it may have [...]

Telegram briefly offline after a DDoS attack, likely from China

By Duncan Riley | Jun 12 2019

Popular encrypted messaging app Telegram was briefly offline Wednesday after it was targeted by a powerful distributed denial-of-service attack, possibly related to current protests in Hong Kong. The attack took the service, which has an estimated 200 million users, offline for at least an hour but possibly longer, according to some reports. [...]

Report finds the hospitality industry becoming a favorite target of DDoS attacks

By Duncan Riley | Jun 26 2018

The hospitality industry has become the favorite target of botnets and distributed denial-of-service attacks. That’s the surprising takeaway from a report released today by Akamai Technologies Inc. The Summer State of the Internet Security report, which delved into cyberattack trends for the six-month period from November 2017 through April 2018, reveals the importance of [...]

Tennessee DDoS attack may have been motivated by retaliation or protest

By Duncan Riley | May 6 2018

Russians? Chinese? Gun-averse liberals who hate Dixieland? All of those and other factors could be responsible for one of the weirdest cyberattacks of recent times after an election in Knox County, the main seat of government for Knoxville, Tennessee, was targeted by a distributed denial-of-service attack. The DDoS attacked occurred last Tuesday evening, [...]

Record-breaking GitHub DDoS attack: Here’s what enterprises need to know

By Duncan Riley | Mar 1 2018

Days after security companies first detected a new form of distributed denial-of-service attack, GitHub has been targeted by the largest DDoS attack ever recorded. Detailed in an incident report, the attack occurred at 12:21 p.m. EST Wednesday and also saw an amplification of the attack using the same new Memcached-based approach. The [...]

Bitcoin exchange Bitfinex targeted in DDoS attack amid cryptocurrency bull market

By Duncan Riley | Jun 14 2017

Leading bitcoin exchange Bitfinex advised customers that they were being targeted by a distributed denial of service attack Wednesday following a similar attack the day before. The attack, which involves a company’s servers being flooded with data in an attempt to take its services offline, did not affect bitcoin and Ethereum trading. [...]

Hackers take no holidays: 2017 DDoS attacks rise fivefold

By Kyt Dotson | Jun 6 2017

Distributed denial-of-service attacks rose by a stunning 380 percent in the first quarter of this year, according to a report released by Nexusguard Inc. today, Furthermore, attackers showed a stronger tendency towards using global holidays to do their deeds, with a greater number of attacks occurring during Valentine’s Day and the Chinese [...]

Amazon enters the DDoS mitigation business with AWS Shield

By Duncan Riley | Dec 2 2016

Amazon Web Services has entered the distributed denial of service mitigation business with a new service launched at the re:Invite conference in Las Vegas Thursday. Called AWS Shield, the new managed service protects web applications against DDoS attacks in conjunction with Elastic Load Balancing, Amazon CloudFront, and Amazon Route 53 and protects [...]

Linode struck by ‘catastrophic DDoS attack’ over Labor Day weekend

By Kyt Dotson | Sep 6 2016

Hosting provider Linode LLC was hit by a massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack over the Labor Day weekend that intermittently took services offline. The company boasts that it is one of the world’s top providers of virtual private servers (VPS) and according to BuiltWith.com the company hosts over 500,000 websites [...]

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