Security News

DDoS Attacks against Dyn (Schneier on Security)
2016-10-22 13:47

Yesterday's DDoS attacks against Dyn are being reported everywhere. I have received a gazillion press requests, but I am traveling in Australia and Asia and have had to decline most of them....

Mirai-Fueled IoT Botnet Behind DDoS Attacks on DNS Providers (Threatpost)
2016-10-22 10:00

Ten percent of the 550,000 IoT nodes in the Mirai botnet are involved in ongoing DDoS attacks against DNS provider Dyn and others.

Major US DNS provider hit with DDoS, part of the Internet becomes unreachable (Help Net Security)
2016-10-21 23:20

US-based DNS provider Dyn has suffered a massive DDoS attack earlier today, and it resulted in many websites being completely or intermittently inaccessible for a few hours. According to status...

Dyn DDoS part 2: The hackers strike back (ZDNet)
2016-10-21 20:51

DDoS Attack Blamed for Massive Outages (InfoRiskToday)
2016-10-21 17:51

Dyn dinged by DDoS: US DNS firm gives web a bad hair day (The Register)
2016-10-21 14:36

Twitter, Others Disrupted by DDoS Attack on Dyn DNS Service (SecurityWeek)
2016-10-21 14:06

Dyn Confirms DDoS Attack Affecting Twitter, Github, Many Others (Threatpost)
2016-10-21 14:01

DNS providers Dyn suffered a DDoS attack this morning that affected many of its major customers including Twitter, Spotify, Github and others.

ABS apologises for AU$30m Census bungle, ISPs say IBM had standard DDoS protections disabled (ZDNet)
2016-10-19 23:51

Mirai Increasingly Used for DDoS Attacks After Source Leak (SecurityWeek)
2016-10-19 12:06