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Rossiya Segodnya Information Agency Suffers Major DDoS Attack LTE Security Flaw Allows Data Spoofing And DDoS Attacks, Affects All Android Devices DDoS Attacks Can Bypass Mitigation Services by Taking Aim at a Website’s Origin IP S&T’s plan to mitigate and prevent Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks ( See: Science and Technology Directorate ) Cheap [...]

Hackers threaten to take down websites of Hong Kong banks unless they pay bitcoin ransoms Spooks, plod and security industry join to chase bank hacker Cyber-Extortionists Targeting the Financial Sector Are Demanding Bitcoin Ransoms Botnet preying on Linux computers delivers potent DDoS attacks Most DDoS attacks hiding something more sinister, Neustar warns Rutgers University’s computer [...]

  GitHub under attack again – Aug 25 CERT Updating UDP Reflection Vectors List – Aug 20 Portmapper Attack – Aug 19 Pentagon promises 10-seconds recovery – Aug 18 IC3 Alerts on Extortion Campaigns – July 31

We had a blast giving our inaugural presentation on DDoS Attacks Basics, Motivations, Trends & Mitigation at OWASP-LA in August. We are thankful to the organizers for putting-on a great event each month, and most especially thankful to the audience for their engagement, curiosity and questions. We thoroughly enjoyed Tin Zaw’s presentation on the OWASP Honeypot Project.