Posts Tagged ‘DDoS’

Anonymous Hater Claims Responsibility for Pirate Bay DDoS Attack

Friday, May 18th, 2012
A hacker who claims to hate both Anonymous and notorious BitTorrent website The Pirate Bay (TPB) has claimed responsibility for the DDoS attack that TPB has been suffering under for the last 24 hours.

Anti-Anonymous hacker takes credit for The Pirate Bay DDoS

Thursday, May 17th, 2012
After 72 hours of being hit with an extensive DDoS attack and having been intermittently inaccessible to its visitors, The Pirate Bay and WikiLeaks are back online. It was initially thought that An...

The Pirate Bay and WikiLeaks recover from DDoS attacks

Thursday, May 17th, 2012
The Pirate Bay fell under a DDoS attacks for which, an ex-Anonymous member has claimed responsibility while in an apparently unrelated DDoS attack Wikileaks was down for over 72 hours


U.S. Firms Over-Reliant on Firewalls to Defend Against DDoS Attacks

Thursday, May 17th, 2012
More than half of US businesses still rely on conventional firewalls or intrusion prevention systems to shield themselves from the scourge of DDoS attacks, a survey by services firm Neustar has found.

The Pirate Bay gives thumbs-down on Anonymous DDoS attack on Virgin Media

Friday, May 11th, 2012


File-sharing site The Pirate Bay has denounced an Anonymous DDoS campaign that took down Virgin Media, calling it an "ugly" method that's no better than the UK court order for ISPs to block users from getting to The Pirate Bay.

Two Norwegians arrested over DDoS attacks

Thursday, May 10th, 2012
Two Norwegian teenagers believed to have led DDoS attacks on a number of Norwegian and international websites have been arrested last Friday and Monday. The rather short notification by the Norwegi...

Norwegian teenagers arrested over denial-of-service attacks

Wednesday, May 9th, 2012
Two teenagers have been arrested in Norway in connection with a series of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against websites in the country, and elsewhere around the world.

UK Ministry of Defence: Hackers Have Breached Top Secret Systems

Friday, May 4th, 2012

The UK's military's head of cyber security warned that hackers have breached computer systems containing top secret data, The Guardian reported.

The UK's military's head of cyber security warned that hackers have breached computer systems containing top secret data.

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Second DDoS attack on UK Police Agency

Thursday, May 3rd, 2012
The UK's Serious Organised Crime Agency responded to a DDoS attack by taking their servers offline


DDoS Attack Knocks SOCA Website Offline

Thursday, May 3rd, 2012

The Website of the United Kingdom’s Serious Online Crime Agency (SOCA) remains offline this morning following a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack.

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