Security News

Leader of DDoS-for-Hire Gang Pleads Guilty to Bomb Threats
2018-09-06 15:51

A 19-year-old man from the United Kingdom who headed a cybercriminal group whose motto was "Feds Can't Touch Us" pleaded guilty this week to making bomb threats against thousands of schools. On...

DraftKings rides to court, asks to unmask 10 DDoS suspects
2018-08-31 21:15

Fantasy sports outfit looks to hunt down group that bombarded its site A US sports gaming company is asking permission to unmask 10 people it believes were behind a massive DDoS attack on its...

Bank of Spain Hit by DDoS Attack
2018-08-28 12:48

Website of Spain's Central Bank Was Temporarily OfflineSpain's central bank says its website was intermittently offline as it struggled to repel a distributed denial-of-service attack. The...

DDoS attackers increasingly strike outside of normal business hours
2018-08-15 14:22

DDoS attack volumes have increased by 50% to an average of 3.3 Gbps during May, June and July 2018, compared to 2.2 Gbps during the previous quarter, according to Link11. Attacks are also becoming...

DDoS Attacks Less Frequent But Pack More Punch: Report
2018-08-08 16:32

There were seven times more distributed denial (DDoS) attacks larger than 300 Gbps (gigabit per second) observed during the first six months of 2018 compared to the first half of 2017, NETSCOUT...

Intensifying DDoS attacks: ​Choosing your defensive strategy
2018-08-06 10:50

One of the biggest misconception regarding DDoS attacks is that they are a once-in-a-lifetime event for organizations, says Josh Shaul, VP of Web Security at Akamai. “Over the last six months, our...

Boston Children's Hospital DDoS Attacker Convicted
2018-08-03 19:17

Hacktivist Was Protesting Controversial Child Custody CaseA federal jury has convicted a hacktivist who launched DDoS attacks in 2014 on Boston Children's Hospital and another local facility to...

Castaway hacker guilty of hospital DDoS attack
2018-08-02 18:51

He'll almost certainly get more than a three-hour tour for this A self-styled Anonymous hacker who attempted to flee the US in a sailboat has been convicted of two felonies for his role in a 2014...

U.S. Now Leads by Number of DDoS Botnet C&C Servers
2018-07-25 16:05

The United States was the top region by number of distributed denial of service (DDoS) botnet command and control (C&C) servers in Q2 2018, Kaspersky Lab reports.

Free training courses on DDoS protection, from introduction to mitigation
2018-07-18 12:57

The DDoS Protection Bootcamp is the first online portal to provide in-depth technical training in the field of DDoS protection. If you’re involved in IT security or network operations, you know...