Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Security expert says these types of attacks are likely to become more common. EHRs and other hospital IT systems could face dramatic new risks. In what some are calling the biggest distributed denial-of-services attack ever seen, a botnet comprising thousands The…
Hackers employ sophisticated DDoS attacks to probe the net’s infrastructure
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans A series of sophisticated DDoS attacks have occurred for over a year in order to find weaknesses in the defenses of key net firms. A security expert is warning that unidentified hackers have been carrying out a campaign using distributed The…
911 is Vulnerable to DDoS Attacks: Hackers Prove How Easy it is!
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans America’s people centric and globally popular emergency helpline number 911 has been found to be easily vulnerable to Distributed Denial of Service or DDoS attacks. Mordechai Guri, Yisroel Mirsky, Yuval Elovici, researchers at the Cyber Security Research Centre of Ben The…
UK is second most targeted nation for DDoS attacks
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The UK gets hit by 9.3 per cent of the world’s distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks – second only to the United States. DDoS attacks deliberately overload a company’s network with fake traffic, primarily from bots, forcing it to The…
Hackers rake in $100000 from companies by making fake DDoS threats
A hacker group claiming to be the Armada Collective, known for its extortion rackets, has taken cybercrime to new levels. The hacker group has duped companies into paying $100,000 (£68,628) by sending them emails with fake threats of launching a DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack. In just two months,…
Hacker squad plans DDoS attacks on PlayStation Network, Xbox Live this Christmas
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Forget the Grinch, there’s someone else who wants to steal Christmas. Phantom Squad, an online hacker group, has threatened to shut down Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network this Christmas by unleashing a series of DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks…
Millions of Vulnerable Routers aiding Massive DNS Amplification DDoS Attacks
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack is becoming more sophisticated and complex with the increase in the skills of attackers and so, has become one of favorite weapon for the cyber criminals to temporarily suspend or crash the services of…
Keeping Your Server Virus & DDOS Free
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans HOW TO KEEP YOUR SERVER VIRUS FREE AND PROTECTED FROM DDOS ATTACKS Keeping your server safe and secure is extremely important in order to preserve the integrity of the data or applications that are running on the system. In addition having…
Merseyside Hacker Faces Jail Term Over Public Sector DDoS Attacks
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans A man from Merseyside is awaiting sentencing after admitting to a distributed denial of service (DDoS) campaign which targeted public sector and business websites, potentially affecting vulnerable people, Computer Weekly has reported. Bootle man Ian Sullivan, aged 51, carried out the…
Anonymous-linked hacker admits to DDoS of public services
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans A hacker with links to Anonymous has admitted conducting distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against social services, crime prevention bodies and businesses. Ian Sullivan, a 51-year-old from Bootle in Merseyside, flooded more than 300 websites with bogus traffic in 2013, rendering them unusable…
