Web hosting provider Servint has been hit by a network outage, reportedly due to a DDoS attack. In a tweet, the company said: “We are aware of an issue affecting a portion of our network. We are attempting to diagnose it and will update as we get information.” Email provider SMTP2GO was one of the company’s customers to be hit…
An Israeli man faces federal charges for allegedly launching a cyberattack against Utah-based Overstock.com. A grand jury this week indicted Kirill Alekseyevich Chudinov on one count of fraud and related activity in connection with computers. He pleaded not guilty Thursday in U.S. District Court. Chudinov is accused of sending simultaneous inquiries from thousands of computers to Overstock’s web servers, causing…
Twitter account holder in Lithuania claims responsibility for apparent denial of service attack that disabled force’s website The Greater Manchester police website has been taken down by what appears to be a denial of service (DOS) attack, with a Twitter account in Lithuania claiming responsibility. Users were unable to access the site www.gmp.police.uk from around 8pm, but the force restored…
The website of the UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) was briefly taken offline by a hacking collective known as Lizard Squad. The incident happened days after six alleged members of the group were arrested for taking part in distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. The NCA, which has a dedicated cyber division, announced six arrests across the UK as part…
Six teenagers were arrested by British police on suspicion of attacking websites, the country’s National Crime Agency (NCA) announced on Friday. The teenagers were users of the hacking group Lizard Squad and used the Lizard Stresser tool, software that allowed them to pay to take websites offline for up to eight hours at a time, according to an NCA statement….
A vulnerability which could divert traffic to launch cyberattacks has been mitigated two weeks after public disclosure. BitTorrent has taken rapid steps to mitigate a flaw which could divert user traffic to launch reflective DDoS attacks. The flaw, reported by Florian Adamsky at the USENIX conference in Washington, D.C., affects popular BitTorrent clients such as uTorrent, Mainline and Vuze, which…
His lawyers claim that their client was only on the “periphery” of a conspiracy to take down UK government and FBI sites, but a UK teen who didn’t mind boasting online about those crimes now faces the possibility of jail time. Charlton Floate, 19, of Solihull, England, already admitted to three counts of computer misuse under the Computer Misuse Act…
Dutch cable operator Ziggo has experienced network problems for a second time in a week, following a DDoS attack. Service disruptions were experienced throughout the country, and Ziggo said around 60 percent of its customers were affected, NU.nl reports. A Ziggo spokesman said the latest attack was worse than the first. The attack targeted Ziggo’s DNS servers, leaving many customers…
Malicious actors have started abusing the Portmapper service to amplify their distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks and hide their origin, Colorado-based telecommunications company Level 3 Communications has warned. RPC Portmapper, also referred to as rpcbind and portmap, is an Open Network Computing Remote Procedure Call (ONC RPC) service designed to map RPC service numbers to network port numbers. When RPC clients…
A group callings itself @Dadsecurity claims it was responsible for the cyber and swatting attacks on the Mumsnet site Internet trolls have targeted the founder of the Mumsnet website launching a so-called ‘Swatting attack’, which resulted in armed police being called to her home. Justine Roberts, who set up the hugely influential parenting forum in 2000, claimed the site had…
