A Reddit user has uncovered a covert method of carrying DDoS attacks on 4chan’s infrastructure using images hosted on Imgur, via Reddit. According to Reddit user rt4nyp, who discovered the vulnerability, every time an Imgur image was loaded on the /r/4chan sub-reddit, over 500 other images were also loaded in the background, images hosted on 4chan’s CDN. Since traffic on…
The company that Hillary Clinton paid to manage her private email network was the victim of a massive international hack during the period in which Clinton was employing it, Breitbart News has learned. Hillary Clinton used the company Internap as the internet service provider for her private email account during her tenure as Secretary of State. Internap, based in Atlanta,…
You can cost-effectively fight denial-of-service attacks by focusing on finding ways to serve your customers and prospects even if your site is down. Denial-of-service (DoS) attacks are probably the scariest online attack a business faces. Not because of the amount of damage done (data breaches are typically much more costly), but because there is so little you can do about…
The Kremlin has reportedly been hit by what they have described as a “very powerful” distributed denial of service attack – also known as a DDoS attack. The attack is reported to have targeted the nation’s electoral commission. A similar attack was made on Sunday, which targeted the official website of Russian president, Vladimir Putin. As many as 50,000 requests…
Over the weekend video gamers who enjoy exploring the galaxy in Star Trek Online and fighting orcs with swords in Neverwinter Online found themselves briefly unable to do so. Some players described lag spiking so high that characters began “rubber banding”–or repeatedly teleporting back every time a player tries to move somewhere else. Cryptic Studios, Inc., the developer of Star…
Justin Payne, a former Veteran Affairs employee, has pleaded guilty to a federal computer hacking charge concerning an attack last year on a St. Louis police union’s website. Mr. Payne, 33, admitted in federal court on Friday to one count of knowingly transmitting a program that damaged a computer. Namely, Mr. Payne acknowledged his part in a campaign that targeted…
The Conservative Party of Canada’s official website is likely either under attack or site administrators are worried about one, according to one security expert. Users visiting Conservative.ca over the last several days may have been greeted by an unusual message. A blank white page reading “Checking your browser before accessing Conservative.ca. This process is automatic. Your browser will redirect to…
An increase in distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks from the Bitcoin extortionist group DD4BC has been logged in recent months: Since April 2015, the team identified 114 DD4BC attacks, including more aggressive measures that target brand reputation through social media. According to a report from Akamai’s Prolexic Security Engineering & Research Team (PLXsert), the DD4BC group has been responsible…
The city of Lodi’s website went down on Thursday in an apparent distributed denial of service attack. “I knew immediately what it was when I looked at it.” When the IT department looked at the server, one computer IP address was pinging the computer, over and over. “They’ll send hundreds of attempts to get on your website all at once,…
A teenager from Brazil has claimed responsibility for a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on Essex Police’s website, following a similar attack on another force earlier this week. Responsibility for the attack was claimed by the same Twitter account which had claimed responsibility for the DDoS which made the Greater Manchester Police website unavailable earlier this week. An Essex…
