Law enforcement efforts worldwide working on ‘Operation Power Off’ have taken down the webstresser.org website, which police claim sold DDoS attacks, helping up to 136,000 registered users launch up to 4 million attacks worldwide. Four arrests … [Read more...] about World’s Biggest ‘DDoS-for-Hire Site’ – webstresser.org – is Taken Down
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Lizard Squad Member Offers DDoS-for-Hire and is Jailed
Lizard Squad member, Zachary Buchta, was sentenced to three months in prison last week for his role in a “hacker-for-hire” service. Buchta who is 20 pleaded guilty in December 2017 for one count of conspiracy to commit damage to protected … [Read more...] about Lizard Squad Member Offers DDoS-for-Hire and is Jailed
The Early Days of DDoS Protection & Mitigation – Part 3
The Early Days: 2004-2007 There were many radical shifts in scale to the Internet across this period. In 2004, the Internet2 backbone (Abilene) was upgraded from 2.5gb/sec to 10gb/sec. and was set to deploy the next generation Internet protocol, … [Read more...] about The Early Days of DDoS Protection & Mitigation – Part 3
How Jack Chappell Avoided Jail Time for His Role in vDos
In July 2017, British man 19-year-old Jack Chappell was arrested by the U.K. police and charged with using the vDoS attack-for-hire service to launch attacks against various U.K. and U.K.-based companies, including the BBC, British Telecom, Virgin … [Read more...] about How Jack Chappell Avoided Jail Time for His Role in vDos
DDoS Case Study: Phil Nagy and the Winning Poker Network
Just As Phil Nagy, the founder of the Winning Poker Network and American Cardroom, was holding a big tournament last summer, his network was struck by a powerful denial-of-service attack, which forced Nagy into postponing or scrapping various events. … [Read more...] about DDoS Case Study: Phil Nagy and the Winning Poker Network
Were Script Kiddies Behind the DDoS Attack Against DNS Provider, Dyn?
In hacking and programming culture, a script kiddie is a derisive term used to describe people who use existing computer scripts or code to hack into computers because they lack the expertise or desire to write their own. The Urban Dictionary … [Read more...] about Were Script Kiddies Behind the DDoS Attack Against DNS Provider, Dyn?