335 news & feature articles results for "distributed denial of service extortion"

Several high-profile e-commerce sites were inaccessible for around half an hour Wednesday evening, due to what customer support at a major DNS provider called an attack.

Posted by Tom Krazit

"Every online gambling site is paying extortion," says Alan Paller of the SANS Institute.

Posted by Dan Ilett

Share a lot? Here's a guide to the security and privacy problems that users of Facebook and Twitter encounter, and what they can do about it.

Posted by Elinor Mills

The storm concerning the new Facebook terms of service surely suggests one thought: what did the Facebook lawyers really have in mind as they were making the changes?

Posted by Chris Matyszczyk

Russian cybercriminals reportedly hacked into Citibank, stealing tens of millions of dollars and prompting an FBI investigation, says The Wall Street Journal.

Posted by Lance Whitney

The attack was launched at Consumerist, a blog that Gawker no longer owns but which is still hosted on the same servers.

Posted by Caroline McCarthy

Microblogging service says it's recovering but still defending itself against the attack. Facebook has also confirmed it was targeted by a DoS attack.

Posted by Caroline McCarthy

Can distributed denial-of-service attacks take down your network? The answer is yes, unless you plan for the worst.

Posted by Dave Rosenberg

Attack coincides with Amazon's outage and could be related to the online retailer's problems, a security researcher says.

Posted by Robert Vamosi

The "news for nerds" Web site popular among Linux fans falls victim to a well-timed series of hacker attacks similar to those that crippled sites in February.

Posted by Stephen Shankland