Media Coverage

A couple of years ago, a 17 year old was arrested for his part in a denial of service attack against gamers playing the online multiplayer version of Call of Duty: Black Ops.  Another online game, Battlefield 3, was taken offline by a DDoS attack earlier this week.

The absolute perfect proof that the spirit of Aethelred yet lives and breathes can be seen in a comment from Ashley Stephenson, CEO of Corero Network Security. He was talking about the DDoS attack on Battlefield 3, “yet another in a long line of attacks aimed at disrupting gamers.”

Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks have been prevalent for quite some time, but as corporations are owning up to the fact that they've been attacked and reporting them, they're beginning to get major headlines around the world.

SEATTLE – So far it appears to be business as usual for most, if not all, of the handful of government agencies and 130 U.S. banks and credit unions targeted for Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS)attacks today.

A collective of hacker groups plans to attack the websites of major government agencies and banks on Tuesday to protest American foreign policy.

The hackers group Anonymous had apparently not made good by late Tuesday afternoon on its promise to take down nine major government websites and 133 financial institution sites – including 12 large credit unions – in what it called “OpUSA.”

SEATTLE — It appeared to be business as usual for most, if not all, of the handful of government agencies and 130 U.S. banks and credit unions targeted for Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks Tuesday.

So far it appears to be business as usual for most, if not all, of the handful of government agencies and 130 U.S. banks and credit unions targeted forDistributed Denial of Service (DDoS)attacks today.

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are a widespread problem in the iGaming industry with hackers betting that they can make money from online gambling merchants by threatening to take down their primary revenue source, the gambling website.

It's the last thing organizations want to hear: Hackers are putting more punch in their distributed denial of service attacks, and they're using more of them to try and shut down their targets. 

Failure to heed the most basic security advice has made tens of thousands of WordPress servers vulnerable to a massive brute force attack that ultimately could result in the creation of a botnet of Incredible Hulk proportions.

IT managers are ‘highly or extremely' concerned about being the victim of a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack.

New independent research commissioned by Corero Network Security (CNS: LN) shows that businesses are more stressed than ever about being the target of a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack.