Enterprise product in the making and ‘loved’ by disbanded hacker group LulzSec.
The constant and very real threat of distributed denial of service
(DDoS) attacks aimed at headline grabbing “hacker” groups, such as
Lulz Security and Anonymous, have helped one tech start-up pick up new
business.
Self-exiled, gun-loving ex-Anon, who goes by the name SparkyBlaze on Twitter, claims that skilled liars are the number one concern for information security.
Australians love to place bets online but little do some punters know of the dangers lurking in cyberspace. Melbourne-based internet betting and entertainment website Sportsbet.com.au found out about these dangers the hard way when in 2009 the company was the target of a distributed denial of service attack (DDoS).
Authorities are looking for the operators of IRC servers used to coordinate the December attacks.
Efforts to combat botnets throughout the year have largely come to nought with the total number of active bots in 2010 — approximately five million worldwide — expected to be roughly equal to that of 2009, according to Symantec.
Fibre networks may well bring enhanced productivity and collaboration, but interoperability of vendors and standards is required to push uptake of videoconferencing, Australian Academic Research Network (AARNet) chief executive, Chris Hancock, has warned.
The loose-knit confederation of internet activists who organise under the banner "Anonymous" have launched a renewed distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT) this week as part of "Operation Payback".
Researchers at the Queensland University of Technology hope to test and mitigate the risks of a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack by creating and running their own internal testbed.