Mt. Gox, the largest exchange for buying and selling bitcoins, is temporarily shutting down following an uptick in activity on the site sparked by a massive drop in the digital currency's price. The Tokyo-based exchange is suspending ...
Tags: Bitcoin, Trading Price
Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox faced a distributed denial-of-service attack late Thursday, at a time the digital currency is seeing an upward swing. The Japanese company, which is rated as the largest exchange for bitcoins, was hit by a DDoS ...
Tags: Bitcoin, DDoS Attack, service
A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack of unprecedented scale that targeted an international spam-fighting organization last week ended up causing problems for Internet users around the world, experts say. The DDoS attack started ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
Much of the news reporting about the massive denial-of-service attack against anti-spam service Spamhaus over the past week or so went way too far in describing it as creating a slowdown on the Internet itself, says one company monitoring ...
Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox faced a distributed denial-of-service attack late Thursday, at a time the digital currency is seeing an upward swing. The Japanese company, which is rated as the largest exchange for bitcoins, was hit by a DDoS ...
Tags: Bitcoin, cryptographic system, DDoS
DDoS attacks like the one that resulted from an altercation between a Dutch company and Spamhaus this week are on the rise, according to a statement from Kaspersky Labs. The security vendor was responding to the huge DDoS attack that ...
Tags: Mega DDoS, cyber attack, cyber
A Cisco-funded router startup has unveiled its first product, which the company says implements breakthrough silicon-to-photonics circuitry for scaling service provider networks and enabling them for software-defined networking (SDN). ...
Tags: Cisco, networks, Internet speed
Cyber attacks on U.S. banks over the last several months reflect a frightening new era in cyber warfare, according to security expert Darren Hayes, who says that corporations are unprepared to battle such attacks because of a shortage of ...
Tags: cyber attacks, U.S.banks, DDoS Bank
Evidence collected from a website that was recently used to flood U.S. banks with junk traffic suggests that the people behind the ongoing DDoS attack campaign against U.S. financial institutions -- thought by some to be the work of Iran -- ...
Tags: U.S.banks, junk traffic, DDoS attack campaign, U.S.financial institutions
Though U.S. officials have consistently blamed Iran for the ongoing stream of distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS) against major U.S. banks, a number of security experts now say that there is not enough evidence to assign the blame ...
Tags: Iran, bank attacks, financial services networks, cyber security
Evidence collected from a website that was recently used to flood U.S. banks with junk traffic suggests that the people behind the ongoing DDoS attack campaign against U.S. financial institutions — thought by some to be the work of ...
Tags: bank attacks, botnets for hire, cyber attacks, Homeland Security, Iran
Network World-Traditional news companies and other websites covering this year's presidential election are preparing for a flood of Web traffic over the coming months,and not just from political junkies.Politically motivated hactivist ...
Tags: media sites, hactivist attacks
IDG News Service - Swedish police confiscated three servers allegedly connected to copyright infringements during a raid on PRQ, a hosting service that was once home to The Pirate Bay. The main target was the Swedish torrent site ...
Tags: servers, hosting service, core routing system, controversial websites
Viruses targeting virtual machines (VM) are growing in numbers and will soon be the dominant force in the world of cyber crime. Speaking at this week’s SNW Europe conference in Frankfurt, Joe Llewelyn, head of global sales training ...
Tags: Viruses, Vm Aware, Computer Products
Hacktivist group Anonymous claims it brought down government websites in protest at the UK’s handling of the asylum case of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. The group targeted the websites of No. 10, the Home Office, the Ministry ...
Tags: Anonymous, Computer Products, Government Websites, Julian Assange