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  • Chinese hackers disable CNN.com for three hours

    CNN.com was knocked offline for three hours shortly after Chinese hackers claimed to have called off a planned denial of service attack against the US publisher.

  • Chinese hackers back off from CNN attack

    Late last week, leaders of a group of Chinese hackers called off a planned denial of service attack on CNN.com, after it was reported on the same day that the attack would occur over the weekend, in protest at "anti-Chinese" media across the Western world.

  • Five percent of Web traffic caused by DDoS attacks

    After analysing traffic from 68 ISPs around the globe, a security researcher claims that as much as five percent of all Internet traffic is from DDoS-attacks.

  • NAB floats denial-of-service threats to the cloud

    Thanks to bots and the rise of financially-driven cybercrime, the menace of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks are too real to ignore -- defending against such attacks however is driving collaboration between ISPs and top tier telcos to push security to the cloud.

  • DDoS mob stoppers

    One the most aggravating Internet security threats today is a distributed denial-of-service attack. Far from going away, the phenomenon is evolving in different forms, but new tools are emerging to help Internet administrators fight this vexing problem.

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  • Read the blog post - Liam Tung

    Limelight kills botnets better than cops do

    Botnet operators have become public enemy number-one as consumers, businesses and governments fall foul to identity theft, DDoS attacks and spam. Yet no one appears to be able to stop the spread of bots -- except maybe the media.

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