Network Solutions Fights Off Multiple DDoS Attacks:

Two attacks on consecutive days left Web host and domain name registry Network Solutions' customers unable to access their Web sites and servers.

A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack was carried out against Network Solutions on yesterday afternoon, and again this morning, according to a post on the company's official blog by spokesman Shashi Bellamkonda.
"Our engineers worked quickly to mitigate the attacks and services are in the process of being restored," he wrote. "We continue to monitor this situation, as potential risk still exists for these attacks to recur."
Some customers complained of outages and said they could not reach the sites hosted by Network Solutions, and were having trouble accessing their e-mail and reaching their servers as of Tuesday afternoon. The company's Twitter feed was still saying that employees were working on bringing its network back online.

http://news.hitb.org/content/network-solutions-suffers-two-ddos-attacks

Planned DDoS attack against Irish Recorded Music Association (IRMA).

 

Operation Payback was supposed to be on a break for a while, but that was before the word got out that the FBI was investigating their activities. The attempt to carry out an attack this soon could be a not-so-subtle message to the FBI that they are undeterred.

The group still has quite a list of possible targets that they have yet to hit, most of which are outside of the United States. Where they will strike next is anyone’s guess.

http://www.myce.com/news/operation-payback-carries-on-attacks-despite-fbi-investigation-36469/

FBI`s investigations into 4chan 'Anonymous' DDoS attacks

 

Over the past two months, a group calling itself "Anonymous," with links to the 4chan Web forum and image board, has launched distributed denial-of-service attacks (DDoS) against Web sites operated by the Motion Picture Association of America, The Recording Industry Association (RIAA), Hustler magazine, rocker Gene Simmons, The British Phonographic Industry, and other similar groups in France, Australia, Spain and elsewhere.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3-20022264-261.html

Dubai ranked amongst top 8 cities suffering from network attacks

67% of attacks on computers located in Dubai are distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS). DDoS attacks are usually performed by utilizing Botnets, mainly aiming to try to disable or limit access to online services located in the country, targeting primarily E-commerce type of websites. 

http://www.ameinfo.com/247294.html

EU runs first pan-European cyber-war simulation

   

In Thursday's exercise, codenamed 'Cyber Europe 2010', experts from all 27 EU states plus Iceland, Norway and Switzerland faced 'simulated attempts by hackers to paralyse critical online services in several EU member states,' a statement released in Brussels read.

http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/europe/news/article_1596558.php/EU-runs-first-pan-European-cyber-war-simulation

Politically provoked DDoS attacks

A new computer Trojan named Vecebot is a new malware family and has been associated to denial of service (DDoS) attacks against bloggers who have posted critical comments against the ruling Communist Party and Chinese mining operations in the nation, as reported by ThreatPost on October 29, 2010.
According to the analysis, targets of the Vecebot botnet were estimated somewhere between 20,000-30,000 hosts. These hosts included some of the famous blogs and online forums of Vietnam. Further, as per the analysis, the launch of Vecebot might have been synchronized with the "Vietnam Blogger Day" on October 19, 2010, an online civil action to commemorate the launch of a blogger and political detainee who exploited the name Dieu Cay.

http://www.spamfighter.com/News-15335-New-Computer-Trojan-Targeting-Anti-Communist-Vietnamese-Bloggers.htm

Georgia Vs Russia

Officially the war between Georgia and Russia began with a series of distributed denial of service attacks – commonly known in the IT security industry as DDoS attacks – that crippled not only the country’s infrastructure, but its judiciary and its entire government decision-making apparatus.

http://www.futuregov.asia/blog/2010/nov/9/after-cyber-attack-war/

Pulling the plug on a country.......

Burma has been offline since Tuesday, when a massive DDoS attack clogged the country's modest 45 Mbps Internet pipeline with junk traffic hitting at a rate of between 10 and 15 Gbps.....


http://news.softpedia.com/news/Massive-DDoS-Attack-Knocks-Burma-Offline-164837.shtml

DDoS attacks by agentless botnets

 Interesting article on http protocol flaws that could result in DDoS attacks by agentless botnets: 


 A flaw in the HTTP protocol leaves the door open for attackers to wage a new form of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that floods Web servers with very slow HTTP "POST" traffic.

http://www.darkreading.com/vulnerability_management/security/attacks/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=228000532

A busy week for DDoS

It`s been a busy week for DDoS.....

"The losses a business can incur through a targeted DDoS attack are enormous, even if they're not out of action for long. We have typically found that businesses attempt to protect themselves with dated measures such as over-bandwidth provisioning, which are costly and ineffective", he added.
Bruun went on to say that businesses should consider investing in managed services. For a growing number of organisations, he argues that the most cost-effective and comprehensive solution is a managed DDoS mitigation service.

http://www.infosecurity-us.com/view/9823/scientology-ddos-jail-sentence-signals-turning-point-/

A New Cyber Arms Dealer

http://lnkd.in/jDtYzH

DDoS for Hire...it seems that cyber terrorists are combining forces and setting up shop everywhere, first china now Iran...