DDoS
Students are responsible for cyber attacks on Universities and Colleges
A research conducted by a government-funded agency has discovered that students are more responsible for cyber attacks on Universities and Colleges than hacking groups doing the organized crime. Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) which conducted the survey by examining around 850 attacks in 2017-18 concluded that most of the incidents were conducted by either staff […]
DraftKings becomes a victim of DDoS Cyber Attack
Boston based Sports betting contest provider DraftKings has released an official statement yesterday which says that it has become a victim of a Cyber Attack. The company says that it has become a victim of a distributed denial of service attack in early last month that is of increasing concern to businesses these days. DraftKings […]
Government websites in Finland suffer DDoS Cyber Attack
A distributed denial of service attack is said to have disrupted few of the government websites in Finland on Sunday last week. And authorities say that the denial of the service attack was the biggest to have taken place in the past few months. Sources reporting to Cybersecurity Insiders say that the first to bear […]
The FCC faked a DDoS Cyber Attack for Congress
A startling report published by David L Hunt, the Inspector General of Federal Communications Commission, says that the Ajit Pai led organization is said to have faked a cyber attack during the height of last year’s ‘Net Neutrality’ debate. But in reality, the so-called “Distributed Denial of service (DDoS) attack did not take place in […]
No Cyber Attacks on FIFA World Cup 2018
Just a few hours ago the final match of FIFA World Cup 2018 was conducted in Russia’s Luzgniki Stadium between France and Croatia and it was France which bagged the World Cup Football 2018 title for the second time. No doubt the game was thrilling even though most of the time the ball was shuffled […]
Vladimir Putin urges the world to fend off cyber attacks on a collective note
All these days we have seen many nations including the US, UK, and Ukraine alleging that Russia and its leader Vladimir Putin have malicious intentions to launch cyber attacks on developed countries in order to create a political instability in the respective nations which would help the Russian federation emerge as a world leader in […]
News about Bitfinex and Ukraine NATO Cyber Attack
Bitfinex, one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges has disclosed that it is experiencing a burst of traffic(DDoS Attack) on its trading database and so has decided to shut it down till mid-Tuesday. In an official statement released at 9:39 am ET on Tuesday, the officials of the Bitcoin exchange website said that their trading engine […]
A Synopsis of Cyber Attacks on Chili’s, World Rugby and Danish Rail Network
Cyber Attack News is out that a database owned by Chili’s Restaurant has been compromised and details such as customer’s credit card information have been accessed by hackers. Dallas based Brinker International, which owns Chili’s restaurant chain of nearly 1600 outlets has made it official that some of the customer credit card info and debit […]
Cyber Attack crashes Knox County Election Commission Website
Officials of the Knox County Election Commission Website have officially disclosed that their website crashed on Tuesday night at around 8 pm due to a cyber attack. But also declared that none of the County’s election results were either affected or influenced by the attack. A media update released early on Wednesday says that the […]
Google offers DDoS protection to its Google Cloud Platform and G Suite Customers
Google has launched a new tool named VPC Service Controls for protecting API based services on its Cloud and G-Suite Platforms. The objective of the service is simple to prevent hackers from exfiltrating data from the said platforms. And as far as DDoS attacks are concerned, Google is offering a service named Cloud Armor to […]
