Tagged: DDoS Attacks & News
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Ireland’s average broadband speeds fall almost 7pc – global study News
24.04.2013 A global study of average measured broadband connection speeds by Akamai for the fourth quarter of 2012 has shown that although Ireland ranked a respectable 15th out of 98... -
Irish internet users saw little impact of major cyberattack - INEX News
02.04.2013 The exchange that handles 95pc of data traffic from Irish people using the internet has said it was unaffected while a major cyberattack was in progress last week, as a backlash... -
Global internet slowdown triggered by largest reported DDoS attack News
27.03.2013 What started as a dispute between spam blockers and a hosting service has resulted in the largest ever distributed denial-of-service (DDos) attack reported, which could have... -
HSBC and GitHub sustain DDoS attacks News
19.10.2012 The websites of both international banking giant HSBC and social coding community GitHub have been hit by distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, causing much disruption...Tags: DDoS attacks, Online Banking, -
GoDaddy.com denies Anonymous attacked its servers News
11.09.2012 Claims by hacker collective Anonymous that a denial of service attack took down millions of hosted websites are incorrect, the interim CEO of GoDaddy Scott Wagner said today. -
Anonymous member claims responsibility for GoDaddy attack that took millions of sites offline News
11.09.2012 Millions of sites registered with GoDaddy.com were knocked offline for four hours yesterday as a result of a massive denial of service attack for which an Anonymous member... -
E-crime cost UK retailers stg£205.4m last year News
24.08.2012 Retailers in the UK lost stg£205.4m as a result of e-crime, according to the British Retail Consortium. This comprises stg£77.3m in terms of direct costs, stg£16.5m spent on... -
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.