There are as many hackers as there is sand on a beach – so to get noticed you need to do something a bit out of the ordinary. If you’re not into hacking a big name like … say Sony, that probably means doing what a hacker called “Amped Attacks” has been up to lately: Taking down racist and homophobic sites (for a short time). One by one.
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A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack puts the Greater Manchester Police website offline twice, with a Twitter user allegedly from Lithuania claiming responsibility.
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Revenge is a dish best served with lots of DDoS …
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Last week, users of Lizard Squad’s DDoS-on-demand service were feeling the heat after arrests were made by UK police. This week, it’s the UK’s National Crime Agency which has found itself the victim of a denial-of-service attack.
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If you think using the Lizard Stresser service is a good (or cool) idea, think again!
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British police have today announced the arrest of six people in connection with distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that attempted to bring down websites belonging to – amongst others – a national newspaper, a school and a number of online retailers.
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BitTorrent today announced that a patch has been rolled out in the libuTP protocol used by many of its clients, fixing a vulnerability that allows attackers to carry out distributed reflective denial of service attacks.
Github said it turned back a distributed denial of service attack; it’s unknown whether this attack is related to a similar attack this March.
Level 3 Communications has discovered a new type of reflection DDoS attack that takes advantage of RPC Portmapper to overwhelm networking services.
Researchers warn several BitTorrent protocols can be leveraged to carry out distributed reflective denial of service (DRoS) attacks.