Security News

Lessons From the Dyn DDoS Attack (Schneier on Security)

2016-11-08 12:25

A week ago Friday, someone took down numerous popular websites in a massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack against the domain name provider Dyn. DDoS attacks are neither new nor...

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DDoS Attack Leaves Finnish Apartments Without Heat (Forbes)

2016-11-07 18:28

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Liberia DDoS blamed on Mirai IoT botnet (The Register)

2016-11-04 16:58

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Test-Run DDoS Attacks Against Liberia Cease (Threatpost)

2016-11-04 15:05

Intermittent DDoS attacks affecting Internet connectivity nationwide in West African nation Liberia have ceased. One researcher says it’s a test for something else.

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Linux/IRCTelnet creates new, powerful IoT DDoS botnet (Help Net Security)

2016-11-02 19:42

Linux/IRCTelnet (new Aidra), a new piece of Linux malware targeting IoT devices and turning them into DDoS-capable bots, has been spotted and analyzed by one of the researchers who share their...

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