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Cloudflare Outage Takes Down Huge Chunk of the Internet, Slowly Coming Back Online

Amazon, X, Spotify, ChatGPT, Grindr, Canva, and many more are struggling to stay online.

Internet Ece Yildirim Nov 18

Sentencing Nears for Gamer Who DDoS’d PlayStation Network as a Minor

A person behind a October 2016 cyberattack that temporarily crippled Sony’s Playstation Network and other online services has pleaded guilty to committing the act as a juvenile, Justice Department officials in New Hampshire said Thursday. Because the individual was a minor at the time, details about the incident, including the offender’s identity, remain sealed. For…

Privacy & Security Dell Cameron Dec 10

Teen Hacker Charged with Paralyzing Miami Schools in Embarrassingly Simple Cyberattack

A Florida teenager allegedly used an embarrassingly simple program to launch a series of DDoS attacks that helped shut down one of the nation’s largest school districts for its first three days of virtual classes, the Miami Herald reported this week. On Thursday, school administrators in Miami-Dade County announced that a 16-year-old student at South…

Crime Alyse Stanley Sep 5

‘Bitcoin Baron’ Gets 20 Months in Prison for DDoS Attack That ‘Crippled’ Emergency Communications

An Arizona man who once styled himself as a hacktivist “Bitcoin Baron” has been sentenced to prison for a distributed denial-of-service attack against the city of Madison, Wisconsin’s computer networks. According to the Department of Justice, the attack “crippled” the city’s emergency communication system, causing “delays and outages in the ability of emergency responders to…

Tech News Sidney Fussell Jun 20

Google Expands Free DDoS Protection to US Political Groups

Google’s parent company, Alphabet, is opening up its free denial-of-service protection program to political groups in the United States, a move that will help political campaigns defend themselves against online attacks during the upcoming election season. The program is known as Project Shield, and it’s run by Jigsaw, a group within Alphabet that focuses on…

Privacy & Security Kate Conger May 16

GitHub, Struck by Record-Breaking DDoS, Walks It Off

Yesterday, the internet’s favorite code repository, GitHub, was hit by a record 1.35-terabits-per-second denial-of-service attack—the most powerful recorded so far. Yet, the website only endured a few minutes of intermittent downtime. The attacker, likely realizing their efforts were for naught, withdrew after less than an hour. GitHub was able to suffer the attack and keep…

Privacy & Security Dell Cameron Mar 1

Botnet Creators Who Took Down the Internet Plead Guilty [Updated]

Two hackers responsible for creating the massive Mirai botnet that knocked large swathes of the internet offline last year have pleaded guilty. The pair commandeered hundreds of thousands of connected devices that were used to hurl spam traffic at a Rutgers University server that contained a web portal used by faculty and students. Paras Jha…

Privacy & Security Kate Conger Dec 13

GAO Will Investigate FCC’s Sketchy Claim That a Cyberattack Broke Its Comment System

The Government Accountability Office, a federal watchdog agency that provides investigative support to legislators, will look into the Federal Communications Commission and its chief Ajit Pai’s dubiously supported claims that a cyberattack took down the FCC’s public commenting system earlier this year. In May, the FCC claimed that downtime on its Electronic Comment Filing System,…

Privacy & Security Tom McKay Oct 16

Google Removes 300 Apps Used to Launch DDoS Attacks From Play Store

Google has removed roughly 300 apps from its Play Store after security researchers from several internet infrastructure companies discovered that the seemingly harmless apps—offering video players and ringtones, among other features—were secretly hijacking Android devices to provide traffic for large-scale distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. The botnet, nicknamed WireX, caught the attention of security…

Privacy & Security Kate Conger Aug 28

US Blames North Korea for Series of DDoS Attacks

The Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Bureau of Investigation issued a rare cybersecurity bulletin linking North Korea to a series of attacks that have targeted US businesses and critical infrastructure since 2009. The alert focuses on a malware strain called DeltaCharlie, which DHS and FBI say was used by the North Korean government…

Privacy & Security Kate Conger Jun 13

FCC Refuses to Release Evidence of the ‘DDoS Attack’ on Its Website

A couple of weeks ago, John Oliver asked viewers to express their concerns about net neutrality on the FCC’s website. Shady antics ensued and the FCC claimed its official website fell victim to a DDoS attack. Activists, senators, and security experts have demanded to see the logs but the FCC has decided they can’t show…

Tech News Rhett Jones May 21

FBI’s New Anti-Hacking Campaign Asks Teens To Be Cyber Heroes, Not Cyber Zeroes

This week, the FBI teamed up with Europol to launch a public prevention campaign designed to “raise awareness of the risk of young adults getting involved in cybercrime.” In service of that mission, the law enforcement agencies representing some of the world’s most powerful nations somehow came up with this: If the FBI’s very official-looking…

Tech News Hudson Hongo Dec 14

Everything We Know About the Cyber Attack That Crippled America’s Internet

Friday’s DDoS attack on Dyn’s domain name servers was unprecedented. The attack utilized a botnet made up of “internet of things” (IoT) devices (think: smart TVs, DVRs, and internet-connected cameras) to take down a major piece of internet infrastructure. The result? For most of Friday, people across the United States and some parts of Europe…

Privacy & Security William Turton Oct 24

Chinese Company Recalls Cameras Used in Last Week’s Huge Cyberattack

Xiongmai, the Chinese company whose webcams were at least partially responsible for Friday’s massive DDoS attack, is recalling some of its products in the US. Security researchers say that Friday’s cyberattack—which is being investigated by the FBI and Department of Homeland Security—was caused in part by malware known as Mirai that targets Iot (Internet of…

Tech News Christina Warren Oct 24

The Batman of the Internet Hacks Russian Government Website, Demands Retribution

Holy cyber attack! The man that former FBI agents have dubbed the “Batman of the Internet” has returned. And this time he’s targeting Russia with one simple message: “I am vengeance!” The Jester is a hacker who first gained recognition for his trolling of Jihadist websites long before Anonymous started riding his cape tails. Late…

Tech News Rhett Jones Oct 23

Watch America’s Internet Get Wiped Out by a Massive DDoS Attack

Today a massive DDoS attack took out a major piece of internet infrastructure, causing huge outages across the United States and Europe. Watch it spread like a disease across the States.

Privacy & Security William Turton Oct 21

The FBI and Homeland Security Are Investigating Today’s Giant Cyber Attack

According to a new report from Reuters, the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) are investigating the massive distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS) hitting the DNS provider Dyn. That attack, which is still ongoing, has left websites as Reddit, Twitter, Spotify and others struggling to stay up. The sheer scale of the…

Tech News Christina Warren Oct 21

Today’s Brutal DDoS Attack Is the Beginning of a Bleak Future

This morning a ton of websites and services, including Spotify and Twitter, were unreachable because of a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on Dyn, a major DNS provider. Details of how the attack happened remain vague, but one thing seems certain. Our internet is frightfully fragile in the face of increasingly sophisticated hacks. Some…

Privacy & Security William Turton Oct 21

What Is DNS and Why Does It Make the Internet Break?

Today, half of America’s internet shut down when hackers unleashed a large distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on the servers of Dyn, a major DNS host. It’s still unclear exactly who carried out the attack and why, but regardless, the event served as a demonstration of how easily large swaths of the web can…

Tech News Michael Nunez Oct 21

Israeli Teens Arrested In Connection With ‘Majority’ of Recent DDoS Attacks

Two Israeli eighteen-year-olds have been arrested in connection with an FBI investigation into vDOS, a cyberattack service that has been credited with perpetrating “a majority” of the DDoS attacks over the last few years. According to security blogger Brian Krebs, the vDOS site has reportedly raked in $618,000 for its services in two years. The…

Tech News Rhett Jones Sep 11

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Cloudflare Outage Takes Down Huge Chunk of the Internet, Slowly Coming Back Online

Sentencing Nears for Gamer Who DDoS’d PlayStation Network as a Minor

Teen Hacker Charged with Paralyzing Miami Schools in Embarrassingly Simple Cyberattack

‘Bitcoin Baron’ Gets 20 Months in Prison for DDoS Attack That ‘Crippled’ Emergency Communications

Google Expands Free DDoS Protection to US Political Groups

GitHub, Struck by Record-Breaking DDoS, Walks It Off

Botnet Creators Who Took Down the Internet Plead Guilty [Updated]

GAO Will Investigate FCC’s Sketchy Claim That a Cyberattack Broke Its Comment System

Google Removes 300 Apps Used to Launch DDoS Attacks From Play Store

US Blames North Korea for Series of DDoS Attacks

FCC Refuses to Release Evidence of the ‘DDoS Attack’ on Its Website

FBI’s New Anti-Hacking Campaign Asks Teens To Be Cyber Heroes, Not Cyber Zeroes

Everything We Know About the Cyber Attack That Crippled America’s Internet

Chinese Company Recalls Cameras Used in Last Week’s Huge Cyberattack

The Batman of the Internet Hacks Russian Government Website, Demands Retribution

Watch America’s Internet Get Wiped Out by a Massive DDoS Attack

The FBI and Homeland Security Are Investigating Today’s Giant Cyber Attack

Today’s Brutal DDoS Attack Is the Beginning of a Bleak Future

What Is DNS and Why Does It Make the Internet Break?

Israeli Teens Arrested In Connection With ‘Majority’ of Recent DDoS Attacks

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