Botnet-driven attacks at 'tipping point' 

Botnet-driven attacks at 'tipping point'

In Hackers - By Phil Muncaster, 11 February 2010 12:39 PM
Denial-of-service and other attacks increasingly motivated by political andactivist groups.
PushDo botnet launches web attacks 

PushDo botnet launches web attacks

In Hackers - By Shaun Nichols, 3 February 2010 3:15 PM
Security, government sites targeted for DoS.
Microsoft looking into new SMB vulnerability report 

Microsoft looking into new SMB vulnerability report

In Applications - By Dan Kaplan, 16 November 2009 11:41 AM
Investigation begins at Redmond.
Researchers devise DoS attack filter 

Researchers devise DoS attack filter

In Hackers - By Nick Farrell, 2 October 2009 7:59 AM
Developing traffic authentication smarts.
Cisco warns of new Unified Communications flaw 

Cisco warns of new Unified Communications flaw

In Applications - By Shaun Nichols, 28 August 2009 2:58 PM
Telephony tool vulnerable to pair of denial of service attacks.
Twitter, Facebook and LiveJournal attacked 

Twitter, Facebook and LiveJournal attacked

In Hackers - By Iain Thomson, 7 August 2009 9:50 AM
A series of distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS) against popular social media sites appear to have stopped after causing hours of mayhem.
Mass attacks on government and financial sites continue 

Mass attacks on government and financial sites continue

In Hackers - By Chuck Miller, 9 July 2009 11:22 AM
Researchers remain unsure of the source of an ongoing distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that is affecting a number of US and South Korean government websites, along ...
Rolling Stone magazine hacker arrested 

Rolling Stone magazine hacker arrested

In Hackers - By Chuck Miller, 2 July 2009 9:39 AM
A disgruntled software developer has been charged with launching attacks against Rolling Stone and Radar Magazine.
Worm-Shiv causes problems with denial of service 

Worm-Shiv causes problems with denial of service

In Hackers - By Dan Raywood, 14 April 2009 11:37 AM
A worm that prevents certain applications from working properly has been detected by Webroot.
Fortinet offers free recovery tool for SMS attack 

Fortinet offers free recovery tool for SMS attack

In Web/client - 7 January 2009 2:04 PM
UTM vendor Fortinet has released a free software application to help users recover from the recently discovered ‘Curse of Silence’ or ‘CurseSMS’ mobile attack.
Denial of service attackers face 10 years in prison 

Denial of service attackers face 10 years in prison

In Risk - By Fiona Raisbeck, 13 November 2006 11:50 AM
Denial-of-service attackers in the UK now face up to ten years in prison under the new Police and Justice Act 2006, which came into force last week.
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