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'Lizard Squad' Targets Sony in New DDoS Attack
Today brought more hacker woes for Sony's PlayStation Network (PSN) and Sony Entertainment Network in the form of a crippling distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack from a vandal collective known as "Lizard Squad.
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Googlebot Imposters Attack, Hack and Spam Your Site
According to new research released today by Incapsula, a web security firm, millions of these “evil twins” are used for distributed denial-of-service (DDoS ) attacks, hacking, spam, content theft and other shady activities on a daily basis.
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World Cup Website Hacked: Is Yours Vulnerable, Too?
Hacktivists have delivered on their promise to take down Brazil’s official World Cup website, effectively disrupting this year’s competition and adding significant weight to their ongoing global threats to use of computers and computer networks to promote political ends, This is no surprise, according to Incapsula, a cloud-based website security and
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Hacked! Attack of the DDoS Protection Services
DDoS attacks sabotage corporate websites to make them unavailable to legitimate visitors. Researchers at Incapsula, a cloud-based website security and performance service, said DDoS attacks are getting stronger, faster, bigger and smarter.
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How Hackers Can Use Facebook, Google to Crash Your Website
Watch your website — and this time, you have bigger threats than viral videos or suspected porn. Hackers can apparently exploit vulnerabilities in Facebook and Google to perform distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on target websites — and neither Internet giant seems overly concerned, according to the developer that alerted
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Incapsula Names the Site Hackers Used in Major DDoS Attack
A few weeks ago, we told you how hackers used a novel technique to get thousands of online video viewers to unwittingly bombard a B2B website with junk traffic. Incapsula, a web security firm, said the attack resulted from a persistent cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability on one of the
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