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A Man Was Sentenced for Participating in a DDoS Attack by Hacker Group Anonymous
Dec 4, 2013A man from Wisconsin was sentenced for participating in a DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attack by hacker group Anonymous on a Kansas company. Eric J. Rosol, 38, is admitted that on Feb. 28, 2011, he took part in a denial of service ...
Tags: Ddos Attack, Fined
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A 35-Year-Old Dutchman Was Arrested Thursday in Spain
May 2, 2013A 35-year-old Dutchman was arrested Thursday in Spain, as part of an investigation into a large-scale DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attack that targeted a spam-fighting organisation called the Spamhaus Project in March. The suspect ...
Tags: Dutchman, Computer Products
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Hacker Group Anonymous on Saturday Made The Formula One Its Latest Victim
Apr 23, 2013Hacker group Anonymous on Saturday made the Formula One its latest victim when it performed a DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack on its official website (formula1.com), as well as defacing its fan site f1-racers.net and several ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
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Mt. Gox Is Temporarily Shutting Down Following an Uptick in Activity
Apr 15, 2013Mt. 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
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Bitcoin Exchange Mt. Gox Faced a Distributed Denial-of-Service Attack Late Thursday
Apr 2, 2013Bitcoin 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
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Bitcoin Exchange Mt. Gox Faced a Distributed Denial-of-Service Attack Late Thursday
Mar 31, 2013Bitcoin 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
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The London Olympics Faced Six Major Cyber Attacks
Mar 7, 2013The London Olympics faced six major cyber attacks during the Games out of some 165 million individual security-related "events" identified by the IT team put together by Gary Pennell, the CIO of the London 2012 Olympics. Cloud was a ...
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Media Organisations and Journalists Are Coming Under Increasingly Regular Cyber-Attacks
Feb 17, 2013Media organisations and journalists are coming under increasingly regular cyber-attacks, with hacking being used as a tool to censor the press. "We have seen distributed denial of service attacks against individual journalists and against ...
Tags: cyber-attacks, hacks, cyber security
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Wells Fargo's Website Experience Intermittent Outages
Dec 31, 2012IDG News Service - Wells Fargo's website experience intermittent outages on Tuesday, while the hacker group claiming responsibility threatened to hit U.S. Bancorp and PNC Financial Services Group over the next two days. Wells Fargo ...
Tags: site outage, hacker group, cyberattacks, Google services
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UK Is Shielded From Cyber Threats
Nov 10, 2012I recently attended a press event in Westminster where"three senior government officials"were to brief journalists on the latest developments in cyber security. These men,we were led to believe,are helping to ensure the UK is shielded ...
Tags: Government DDoS gaffe, cyber security, DDoS attacks, strategy
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Anonymous Has Claimed Responsibility for a Distributed-Denial-of-Service Attack
Oct 19, 2012Anonymous,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
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Anonymous Has Claimed Responsibility for a Distributed-Denial-of-Service Attack
Oct 19, 2012Anonymous,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
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HSBC Has Restored Its Online Banking Services After a DDoS Attack
Oct 19, 2012HSBC 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 ...
Tags: HSBC, online banking services, distributed denial of service attack