Tagged: DDoS Attacks
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Hacker attack shuts down UK serious crime agency website News
03.05.2012 The UK’s Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) has gone offline after becoming the target of a hacker attack. Ironically, SOCA has been instrumental in closing 36 websites... -
Anonymous on Time magazine's 100 most influential list News
19.04.2012 Hacktivist collective Anonymous has made it onto Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World list. -
Major DDoS attack upsurge hits financial services firms News
11.04.2012 Financial services firms are the latest sector to come under fire from distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks globally, with a 3,000pc increase in malicious packet traffic... -
SOPA-inspired Anonymous attacks on Irish Govt sites a ‘warning shot’ News
25.01.2012 The Irish Government is now in the sights of hacker collective Anonymous which last night took down the websites of the Department of Justice and the Department of Finance as...Categories: Software & Web Development, Software, Social Media, Servers, Security, Intellectual Property, Government -
Anonymous plans a Facebook black out on 28 January News
24.01.2012 Facebook is being targeted by hacker collective Anonymous, that wants to see the social network ‘taken down’ on 28 January. -
Hackers take down Egyptian government websites News
20.12.2011 Hackers took down a dozen Egyptian government websites in what appears to be an orchestrated distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. -
96pc of cyber attacks on Irish firms come from organised criminals News
24.11.2011 Irish businesses are battling a rising epidemic of cyber attacks, Irish online security body IRISSCERT has revealed, with the majority of attacks coming from organised criminals.Categories: Software & Web Development, Servers, Security, Legal, Hardware, Education, Digital Business -
Hacker group Anonymous targets darknet child porn sites News
24.10.2011 Hacker group Anonymous has taken down child porn websites located in hidden regions of the internet – the darknet – as well as releasing information on 1,500 alleged users of...Categories: Hosting Services, Communications, Internet, Security, Servers, Software & Web Development, Web -
Anonymous takes down MasterCard site again News
28.06.2011 Loose hacktivist collective Anonymous took down the MasterCard website again for two hours in continuing protests against the company blocking funds to WikiLeaks. -
Sony admits malicious attacks brought down PlayStation Network News
27.04.2011 Technology giant Sony’s PlayStation division has admitted an “illegal intrusion” and “compromise of personal information” on its systems has caused the current ongoing outage of... -
PlayStation websites down - hackers at play? News
25.04.2011 Sony PlayStation gamers have been frustrated for four days now by a major outage that appears to have been caused by a distributed denial-of-service attack. -
Denial of service attacks up 22pc year-on-year News
14.03.2011 There has been a 22pc increase in the number of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, says Trustwave. The company’s Web Hacking Incident Database points to a lack of...Categories: Software & Web Development, Servers, Security, Internet, Hosting Services, Hardware, eCommerce -
'Largest' DDoS attack hits WordPress News
04.03.2011 Blogging platform WordPress.com has been targeted by a denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that the company described as "the largest and most sustained attack" in its history. -
WikiLeaks story underscores year in security News
05.01.2011 Security became very prominent in 2010 on several fronts but we don’t have to look too far back to find one of the year’s biggest stories. The furore around the latest set of...