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Week-long DDoS attack against Spamhaus 'largest in history'

03/27, 1:33pm

Denial of service attack over spam blacklist inclusion

The Internet is reportedly slowing down due to a large-scale online attack against an anti-spam organization, with the attack itself being declared the largest public denial of service attack in history. Non-profit Spamhaus is believed to be under attack from criminal gangs based in Russia and Eastern Europe, in a dispute that has escalated to a level that other services, such as Netflix, are feeling the impact.

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Anonymous hacker guilty of Mastercard, Paypal DDoS attacks

12/07, 1:33pm

British hacker faces 10 years in prison for attacks

A British hacker has been found guilty for his part in a Distributed Denial of Service attack against payment services. Anonymous member Christopher Weatherhead, attacked MasterCard, Visa, and Paypal after they turned away from processing payments for Wikileaks, as well as music industry companies, in attacks costing those involved over $5.6 million.

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GoDaddy suffers from mass outages, Anonymous member to blame

09/10, 11:08pm

Domain name servers assailed by denial of service attack

Most of the GoDaddy-hosted websites and services on the Internet were taken temporarily offline today from around 1:25PM ET to just after 8PM as the result of an attack. The outage is blamed on a DNS denial of service attack, which one purported Anonymous collective hacktivist leader claims as his own. No motive has been ascribed to the attack.

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Anonymous changes tack, calls for real-world CISPA protests

05/01, 7:00pm

Video details targets, dates of local protests

In a video recently uploaded on YouTube, hacker activist group Anonymous has changed its traditional direction. Nodding to recent countermeasures to distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks against targeted websites, Anonymous announced a list of companies and dates for more conventional protesting. The group plans traditional protests beginning May 1 against companies that support the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA), recently approved by the House of Representatives.

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Apple issues critical updates for Tiger, Leopard

05/28, 8:40pm

Apple: critical updates

Apple on Wednesday released dozens of security updates part of its Mac OS X 10.5.3 update for Leopard and Security Update 2008-003(PPC Tiger client, Intel Tiger client, PPC Server, Universal Server) for Mac OS X Tiger, including critical bugs for remote shutdown, arbitrary code execution (multiple including JPG2000 issues), denial of service (via viewing PNG files), private information information disclosure (via SSL, Tiger Mail, Unicode, malicious BMP/GIF files and Image Capture) as well as a critical code execution bug for the continually updated Adobe Flash plugin. Apple also updated its Single Sign-On feature (CVE-ID: CVE-2008-1578) to prevent passwords from being supplied other local users.

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DoS attack on iPhone causes memory leak, freeze

01/26, 1:25pm

New iPhone vulnerability

iPhone owners should be on guard against a new threat, which fortunately doesn't harm the device, but still induces a freeze by taking all available system memory. According to security firm SecurityFocus, the vulnerability is exposed by a Denial of Service attack, when a maliciously crafted webpage is viewed. The page will insert code into the iPhone, which continually eats up available system memory before causing a kernel panic.

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