vDOS — a “booter” service that has earned in excess of $600,000 over the past two years helping customers coordinate more than 150,000 so-called distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks designed to knock Web sites offline — has been massively hacked, spilling secrets about tens of thousands of paying customers and their targets. The[…]
Staminus Communications – A California-based hosting and Anti-DDoS Firm Staminus was hacked and is recovering a massive data breach after hackers broke down into its servers and leaked personal and sensitive details of its customers. Read about DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks here. Though the company acknowledged that there[…]
Introduction Contrary to what you might believe, DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks are considerable, a serious cyber threat able interrupt a web service provided by an organization causing serious consequences. The methods of attacks could be adopted for various purposes by different entities, for example a group of cyber-criminals[…]
