Anonymous,the loosely affiliated hacker group,has claimed responsibility for a distributed-denial-of-service attack against banking giant HSBC. The attack was launched last night at about 10pm,and took down a number of customer-facing ...
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Anonymous,the loosely affiliated hacker group,has claimed responsibility for a distributed-denial-of-service attack against banking giant HSBC. The attack was launched last night at about 10pm,and took down a number of customer-facing ...
Tags: Anonymous, hacker group, HSBC, distributed-denial-of-service attack
HSBC has restored its online banking services after a distributed denial of service(DDoS)attack. HSBC said servers had come under a DDoS attack which affected HSBC websites around the world. The DDoS attack on HSBC did not affect any ...
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IDG News Service-Distributed denial-of-service(DDoS)attacks with an average bandwidth of over 20Gbps have become commonplace this year,according to researchers from from DDoS mitigation vendor Prolexic. Last year such high-bandwidth ...
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The websites of several Swedish government agencies were knocked offline on Friday. The website failures coincided with threats by hacktivists, claiming to be members of the Anonymous collective, to launch a cyber attack against Swedish ...
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A handful of Swedish websites remained down Friday evening there after hacking group Anonymous threatened earlier this week to attack the nation for a police raid on a hosting service that was once home to The Pirate Bay. As of 6:45 ...
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A hacker group said to be connected to Hamas has claimed responsibility for distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on US banks in retaliation to the controversial video "The Innocence of Muslims" posted on Google's YouTube service. ...
Tags: DDoS, US banks, controversial video, Wells Fargo
The Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center (FS-ISAC) has put U.S. banks on high alert against cyberattackers seeking to steal employee network login credentials to conduct extensive wire transfer fraud. The alert warns ...
Tags: Cybercrime, Hacking, U.S.Banks, IT security
Microsoft has found several PCs,manufactured in China,to have had malware installed by cyber criminals. Microsoft's digital crimes unit stumbled across the malicious software during an investigation into Chinese manufacturers in August ...
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In what it says is an attempt to turn the tables on malicious hackers,security vendor Prolexic on Tuesday released details of vulnerabilities it has discovered in a toolkit family used by hackers to launch distributed denial of service ...
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Network World - LAS VEGAS -- To celebrate the 15th anniversary of the Black Hat Conference here, a panel of experts got together to expound on what they see as the privacy and security mess of our times, and they had plenty to say about the ...
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Chinese and Hong Kong Police have smashed a gang blackmailing gold,silver and securities traders with the threat of distributed denial-of-service(DDoS)attacks. The cross-border cyber policing operation netted six suspects in ...
Tags: China, DDoS attacks, gang blackmail, Chinese and Hong Kong Police