Feds Shut Down 15 Denial of Service Websites

December 20, 2018 CyberCecurity Leave a comment

You can get anything on the Internet. One of the relatively recent additions are web sites that you can pay (I presume in Bitcoin) to “stress” a web site that you don’t like. Stress is a euphemism for denial of service attacks which force the target site offline. They have charged 3 men today – […]

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Internet of Things – The New Hacker Attack Vector

October 7, 2016 CyberCecurity Leave a comment

Recently, Brian Krebs (KrebsOnSecurity.com) was hit with a massive denial of service attack. The site went down – hard – and was down for days. His Internet Service Provider kicked him off, permanently. The attack threw over 600 gigabits per second of traffic at the site. There are very few web sites that could withstand […]

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