DDoS and Security Reports

The Ukrainian newspaper site UA-Reporter has come under a sustained DDoS attack, starting March 19 and continuing through now. At least two different C&Cs are involved, both located in the Ukraine themselves. The English-language portion of the site is much less complete than the Ukrainian-language portion, so it’s hard to tell what stories or reporting [...]

Dr. Jose Nazario of Arbor Networks joins Tom Merritt and Rafe Needleman to discuss the ins and outs of botnets.

I arrived at work this morning to see that the popular forums DSL reports had been disabled by a DDoS attack. The site was back online within a few hours, with site owner Justin providing some information. No motivations are immediately visible, however DSL reports operates a large, informative pool of forums and helps their [...]