Tag: DDOS

It used to be that distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks were strictly the realm of digital gangsters and elite hacker crooks. But, as part of a worrying trend, a growing number of political and activist groups have begun to employ such tactics as a form of protest. What's more, these hacktivists, as they're called, are developing new techniques for taking out servers and defacing Web sites ...

Oh that Conficker virus, it just won't go away. Despite its authors having a bounty placed on their heads by Microsoft, the thing is still spreading, updating itself, and becoming even more prevalent. That spells bad news for Southwest Airlines, discovered Mike Wood, a security expert at SophosLabs. In a recent SophosLabs corporate blog post, he explained that millions of computers infected ...

Cyber criminals have proven again and again that they're a step or two ahead of the law enforcement and computer techs that are trying to stop them, but a new report says criminals aren't restraining themselves to viruses and shady emails. The survey shows that distributed denial of service, or DDOS, attacks are increasing in number and potency and could threaten the largest Web sites and ...

Owen Thor Walker is 18, a kid from New Zealand with a talent for computers. He's also one of the world's most important criminal masterminds when it comes to cybercrime, having been arrested late last year for leading an international online syndicate, stealing money from bank accounts, initiating distributed denial of service attacks against any target he liked, and causing over $20-million in ...

Well, it looks like the war is on. The Church of Scientology's attempts to squash circulation of a video of Tom Cruise last week seem to have been the final straw for a group that calls itself "Anonymous." According to a recent report in Wired, the cryptically-named organization recently stated that its main goal is to destroy the leadership of the Church of Scientology. The first public salvo ...