GreatFire.org, a site that monitors websites blocked by the Great Firewall of China, has been hit with a massive DDoS attack.
Tag Archives: Denial of Service
Lizard Squad returns, claims attack on Xbox Live and Daybreak Games
Hacking group Lizard Squad has returned, apparently disrupting Microsoft’s Xbox Live service and Daybreak Games with DDoS attacks.
“Most adorable bug” – Raspberry Pi 2 crashes when you take a photo of it
It’s not buggy, it’s camera-shy! The tiny, budget Raspberry Pi faints when you flash a photo of it, and it’s likewise not keen on laser pointers.
Update Tuesday wrap-up, February 2015 – don’t let JASBUG distract you
Be careful! The JASBUG vulnerability in Windows is grabbing the headlines, but there are other bugs that could hit you harder. Paul Ducklin explains…
SSCC 184 – What’s the lifespan of a GHOST? [PODCAST]
Our weekly security podcast – the latest news in 15 minutes, entertaining *and* educational. Enjoy!
New-style ransomware locks out your customers – demands money to let them log back in
The crooks took a low-key, annoyingly simple, and hard-to-spot approach. Change usernames like JIMMY to FKOVWH3Z7LUV, but hide the changes…for a while, anyway.
Lizard Squad took down Facebook and Instagram! Believe it! Or not…
The hacking-and-cracking crew known as Lizard Squad tweeted that Facebook and Instagram were down. Before you could say, “But we don’t crash EVER,” that had turned into “Lizard Squad did it”…
Why the US was so sure North Korea hacked Sony: it had a front-row seat
A newly released, top-secret document traces the NSA’s infiltration of North Korean systems back to 2010, when it piggybacked on South Korean “implants” on North Korea’s networks and “sucked back the data”.
Lizard Squad’s DDoS service hacked, buyers’ details revealed
Lizard Squad, the group that took down the Sony PlayStation and Microsoft Xbox networks over the Christmas period, has received a dose of its own medicine with the news that it has itself been hacked.
Cyberjihadists attack thousands of French websites after Charlie Hebdo massacre
Some 19,000 French websites have come under attack in the days since the bloody assault on the office of the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo and a Jewish grocery store last week.