Seized websites - including critical-boot.com, ragebooter.com, downthem.org and quantumstress.net - now resolve to a federal seizure notice. Fifteen of the world's biggest "stresser/booter" services, ...
The FBI arrested this past week Sean Krishanmakoto Sharma, 26, from La Canada, California, for launching DDoS attacks against Chatango, an online chat service. According to court documents, Sharma, ...
Known as Lizard Squad, the hacker collective says it shut down the PlayStation Network (PSN) and Xbox Live network on Dec. 25 using a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, a common technique ...
EXCLUSIVE —Link11, a DDoS mitigation firm, says that DDoS attacks fell 60% across Europe following the takedown of WebStresser, the largest DDoS-for-hire portal on the market. The service was taken ...
The National Crime Agency (NCA), which is like a British version of the FBI, arrested six UK teenagers for allegedly using a DDoS-for-hire service to attack corporate websites. During Operation ...
UK law enforcement has tracked down and arrested six teenagers believed to have used Lizard Squad's DDoS service. On Friday, the UK's National Crime Agency (NCA) announced Operation Vivarium, an ...
The Internet of Things is creating serious new security risks. We examine the possibilities and the dangers. Read now A team of Dutch and German academics has studied the aftermath of a major ...