John Kelsey Gammell, a 46-year-old from New Mexico has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for conducting sustained DDoS attacks (distributed denial of service) against his ex-employer Washburn Computer Group, a point-of-sale system repair...
Another day, another DDoS attack causing passengers a great deal of trouble. The largest train operating company in Danmark "Danske Statsbaner" (DSB or Danish State Railways) suffered a massive DDoS attack (distributed denial-of-service) on...
Last year in September Americas Cardroom (ACR), a popular online poker site and its Winning Poker Network (WPN) suffered a series of massive DDoS attacks forcing the company to pause all of its ongoing tournaments - In that attack, unknown...
Cisco switches at data centers located in Iran and Russia became the target of hackers this Friday. Reportedly, Cisco devices were hijacked through the exploitation of their Smart Install feature. After attacking the vulnerable switches, hackers...
The AMR system (automatic meter reading system) of Uttar Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam (UHBVN) (Haryana power utilities) in Panchkula, India became a victim of cyber-attack by unknown hackers last week.The New Indian Express (TNIE) reports that...
The email service at the Northern Ireland Parliament, Stormont has been hit by a brute force attack allowing unknown attackers to access email accounts of several members.(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});According to...
The financial services industry is crucial to the health of the UK economy – accounting for more than a million jobs (double that employed in agriculture, for example) and contributing more than £120 billion in gross value added. The country...
By now the vulnerability in Memcached Servers has been exposed to the masses since its proof of concept (PoC) code was recently published online. That exposure would now allow script kiddies to conduct large-scale DDoS attack as if the recent...
Recently we informed our readers about how attackers are abusing the misconfigured Memcached servers to launch massive DDoS attacks. According to the observation of not one or two but three security firms, massive Memcached reflection distributed...
Last week we reported on the world's largest DDoS attack that hit Github website and caused a brief service disruption. The 1.35 Tbps DDoS attack was carried out by exploiting a recently exposed critical vulnerability in unsecured Memcached...
