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Smart Toothbrushes Used in Swiss DDoS Attack
UPDATE Tom’s Hardware has confirmed that the Smart Toothbrush attack was actually just a hypothetical situation. Fortinet the security firm behind this hypothetical attack acquired the following statement from the firm: “To clarify, the topic of toothbrushes being used for DDoS attacks was presented during an interview as an illustration…
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TOR Browser Has Been Hit By Consistent DDOS Attacks For The Last 7 Months!
TOR (The Onion Ring) is undoubtedly a highly popular browser option among the more, shall we say, enthusiast-level of online users. Distributing your data connection via a number of volunteer proxies, the overall key concept of TOR is to provide a near-total level of anonymity within your online browsing. Yes,…
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Hacking Group Anonymous Declares ‘Cyber Warfare’ on Russia
We at eTeknix are, first and foremost, a technology publication. We tend to avoid, whenever possible, giving our opinions on political issues unless they are directly relevant to what we know and love (PC hardware!). – It is, however, hard to ignore the fact that with the current situation between…
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Was America Just Hit With a Huge DDOS Attack?
There are always groups around the world looking to push the limits of online security systems. Unfortunately, in many cases, some of these organizations are government backed allowing them to effectively make it a full-time 24/7 occupation. It seems, however, that overnight America may have been subjected to one of…
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Blizzard Says WoW Classic DDoS Attacker has been Arrested
Since it’s release around a month ago, WoW Classic (World of Warcraft) has proven to be a huge success for Blizzard. Player numbers are up and, overall, the community seems to be really enjoying the experience. That isn’t, however, to say that everything has been great. For example, Blizzard revealed…
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Blizzard Confirm WoW Classic is Getting DDoS Attacks
Since it’s launch late last month, WoW Classic (World of Warcraft) is proving to be hugely popular with players of the MMORPG. Yes, admittedly, some of them are finding it difficult to make the transition back to the older style of WoW. In addition, initial heavy queue times have been…
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Hacker For Hire Is Sent To Prison For Sending Liberia Offline
Hacker For Hire Gets Prison Sentence One of the more pervasive parts of the dark web is those who offer their hacking services for hire. The concept is quite simple. You pay them a fee and they will attempt to disrupt or completely take down a website. This can be…
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FBI Shuts Down 15 DDoS ‘Service’ Websites
FBI Shuts Down 15 DDoS Websites DDoS attacks are a regular issue for many online websites and companies. For those of you who have never heard the term before, I’ll try and explain it in it’s simplest terms. Websites are designed to handle certain numbers of people visiting them. The…
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Ajit Pai Admits FCC Lied About 2017 DDoS Attack
Ajit Pai Admits FCC Lied About 2017 DDoS Attack On May the 8th 2017 in response to the initial steps towards the removal of Net Neutrality protections, the FCC claimed that it had been subjected to a major DDoS attack. It was a claim that the American agency would consistently…
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Blizzard Report DDOS Attack On Network Providers
Update! Reports are beginning to suggest that the attack may indeed have been on Blizzard specific servers. We are awaiting further details. Blizzard Report DDOS Attack On Their Servers DDOS attacks are one of the most basic forms of crippling a website. Put simply, they are based on many, many…
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World of Warcraft DDOS Attacker Jailed For A Year
A hacker who operating a DDOS Campaign against World of Warcraft faces a year in prison One of the major factors when it comes to companies who provide online services is the risk of DDOS attacks. In terms of hacking, they are not overly difficult to do and represent the…
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GitHub Subject To The Worlds Biggest DDOS Attack
GitHub The website GitHub is popularly used by coders who either want help with their coding or are willing to check others to help them solve their coding troubles. For those unfamiliar with coding, the basic premise goes that your program coding may have 99 errors, you fix one of…
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Mirai Botnet Launches Fresh 54-Hour DDoS Attack
A new variant of the Mirai botnet has launched a fresh distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that lasted over three days. Mirai – run by a type of malware able to infect and take control of IoT devices – was used in October 2016 to conduct one of the…
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Reviewer Under Attack for Giving Zelda: BotW a 7/10 Score
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild has been out a little over a week now and it has received wildly positive reviews. For a short while, it even shared the rank of best-reviewed games of all time with a score of 98 (out of 100). That changed when…
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Mirai Worm Author Anna-Sempai Unmasked
The Mirai botnet, which takes control of unsecured IoT devices to launch massive DDoS attacks, wreaked havoc last year after its developer, known only as Anna-Sempai, released the source code for the malicious software. One victim of Mirai was Krebs on Security, the blog run by security researcher Brian Krebs.…
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