Quantcast
Channel: Information Warfare Monitor » DDOS
Browsing latest articles
Browse All 10 View Live

Change.org Victim of DDoS Attack From China

Source: Michael Kan, IDG News Change.org, an online petitioning platform, has come under an ongoing distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack originating from China after the site hosted a call...

View Article



Ongoing Attacks on Human Rights Web sites and the Problem of Attribution

Ongoing Attacks on Human Rights Websites and the Problem of Attribution A number of cyber attacks took place against human rights groups this week; including Armorize’s discovery of a variant of a...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Amid Uprisings, Cyberattacks in Syria

Amid popular uprisings in Syria, Facebook users in the country logging into the secure HTTPS version of the social networking site are finding themselves to be the targets of an ongoing...

View Article

Anonymous steals 10,000 Iranian government emails, plans DDoS attack

Source: Joe Falconer, The Next Web Anonymous has hacked into Iranian government servers and procured over 10,000 email messages from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The Ministry’s website is still...

View Article

Spanish police website knocked offline after hacking suspects arrested

Source: Giles Tremlett , The Guardian Spain’s main police website was knocked offline over the weekend in an apparent revenge attack following the arrest of three suspected leaders of the hacking group...

View Article


Breachfest 2011 Continues

Breachfest 2011 Continues The flood of news of breaches against high profile organizations that Ron Deibert has dubbed Breachfest 2011 remains in full force. Last week, LulzSec broke into the U.S....

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Syrian Electronic Army: Disruptive Attacks and Hyped Targets

See the latest Update Introduction In The Emergence of Open and Organized Pro-Government Cyber Attacks in the Middle East: The Case of the Syrian Electronic Army, the Information Warfare Monitor’s...

View Article

New group of hacktivists claim downing of MasterCard website

Source: Infosecurity The AntiSec movement was one of the last public cause statements issued by the LulzSec hacktivist group before it disbanded over the weekend, Infosecurity notes. MasterCard isn’t...

View Article


Cyber Attacks Against South Korea Were ‘War Drills’ by the North

Source: Giles Turnbull, Time North Korea has been conducting “drills” for cyberwar against its southern neighbor using simple, but very effective denial-of-service attacks, according to security...

View Article


South Korea botnet self-destructed after DDoS

Source: Tom Espiner, ZDNet UK The attack, which began on 4 March, 2011 and continued for 10 days, was launched from a network of compromised computers in South Korea. Once the attack ceased, the bots...

View Article
Browsing latest articles
Browse All 10 View Live




Latest Images