Anti-spam organisation Spamhaus has recovered from possibly the largest ‪DDoS‬ attack in history.A massive 300Gbps was thrown against Spamhaus' website but the anti-spam organisation was able to recover from the attack and get its core services back up and running. CloudFlare, the content delivery firm hired by Spamhaus...

Application security solutions provider Radware has released its 2012 Global Application and Network Security Report. According to the study, distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks are becoming more sophisticated and more severe.In addition, cybercriminals have started deploying new attack tools, such as server-based...

In a petition submitted to the White House’s “We the People” website, Anonymous hacktivists are asking the Obama administration to make distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks a legal form of protesting.“With the advance in internet techonology, comes new grounds for protesting. Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS),...

Security researchers from Russian firm Doctor Web have come across a new Android Trojan they call Android.DDoS.1.origin. The piece of malware can be used for various malicious tasks, including to launch distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks and to send SMS messages.For the time being, it’s uncertain how the Trojan...

Summary: The Anonymous hacktivist movement is planning to launch a distributed denial of service attack (DDoS) on the Internet’s root DNS servers, using a Reflective DNS Amplification DDoS tool.According to a note left by members of the Anonymous hacktivist movement on Pastebin.com, the group is planning to launch a distributed...