One of the most disruptive attacks to deal with in today’s threat landscape is the distributed denial of service attack, often called DDoS. Using the resources of many other computers, an attacker can focus a vast amount of packets and power at a single resource and effectively knock it offline for as long a time Read more…
Tags: Brazil, DDoS, distributed denial of service, DoS, LOIC, SlowLoris
On March 4th of this year, exactly 20 months to the day of a similar incident on US Independence Day in 2009, a botnet based out of South Korea launched Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks against 40 sites affiliated with South Korean government, military and civilian critical infrastructure as well as U.S. Forces Korea Read more…
Tags: Cybercrime, cyberwar, distributed denial of service, North Korea, Public Sector, South Korea
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