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DDoS Attack Hits Australian ISP Cirrus Communications
Australian wireless broadband provider Cirrus Communications suffered a DDoS attack earlier this week which knocked out half of its network. The attack had been mostly mitigated by Wednesday afternoon local time, but details of the attack continue to be scarce. Continue reading
Tor Network Investigates Attack That May Have Unmasked Anonymous Users
Tor is investigating a five-month attack on its network that may have unmasked users of its anonymous network. Officials from the Tor Project believe that researchers at Carnegie-Mellon University were behind the attack. Continue reading
Large Volume DDoS Attacks See Exceptional Growth in First Half of 2014: Arbor Networks
Large volume DDoS attacks increased by almost 350 percent from 2013 to the first half of 2014, according to Arbor Networks’ DDoS Attack Trends Q2 2014 report. While average attack size and NTP use decreased compared to Q1, attack duration increased, and Arbor emphasizes that volume was the main theme in DDoS attacks for the first half of the year. Continue reading
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Tagged almost-350, arbor, arbor-networks, attack, average-attack, ntp, the-first, the-main, use-decreased, year
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UltraDNS Mitigates Massive 100Gb/s DDoS Attack
Neustar UltraDNS has mitigated a 100Gb/s DDoS attack targeted at one customer, bringing down its DNS service for several hours on Wednesday. According to the SANS Institute’s Internet Storm Center, who had monitored the attack, the DDoS was launched Wednesday morning at around 10:45 PT. By 11 pm, UltraDNS had… Continue reading
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Tagged attack, bringing-down, institute, internet, neustar-ultra, one-customer, sans, security and privacy, several-hours
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