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A computer engineer was sentenced to 121 months in prison after launching distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against a children's hospital and a residential treatment facility. The hacker was protesting a custody battle involving a teenage patient receiving treatments at the...

The Justice Department has announced the seizure of 15 websites that were offering DDoS-for-hire services and the filing of criminal charges against the three individuals that ran them. Distributed denial-of-service, or DDoS attacks cripple computer networks by flooding the targeted computers...

The Final Fantasy XIV European servers are currently under a DDoS attack. The developers are looking into how the attacks are being made to formulate a plan for countermeasures. This DDoS attack has been affecting the service of paying customers since 9:09 a.m. (PDT). Players may be...

The FCC has maintained a theory that the agency's Electronic Comment Filing System (ECFS) was the victim of a hacker's DDoS attack during the Net Neutrality debate. Angry Americans seeking to have their voices heard on the issue of Net Neutrality, flooded the FCC's ECFS website with requests to...

Valve employee Fletcher Dunn gave a talk about Denial of Service Mitigation at the Game Developer's Conference (GDC). He gives examples of why people use Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks on game servers and other gamers. Some gamers don't want a loss recorded against their account...

This firmly lands in the category of "Play stupid games, win stupid prizes." This jackass was using DDoS attacks to disrupt the gameplay of his own clanmates because he was not happy with the distribution of loot after raiding. A Romanian computer hacker who orchestrated a series of...

Dutch Police and the UK's National Crime Agency have arrested the admins of Webstresser.org and seized the website. Webstresser allowed you to rent its services, and those services happen to be an array of Distributed Denial of Service attacks. Six of its admins spread out across, Canada...

The world's largest DDOS against Github (now measured at 1.7TB) has now been found to be an extortion attempt to be paid in Monero cryptocurrency. Thankfully, the attack vector can be fairly easily secured to stop this from happening. The extortion note, which occurs in a line of Python code...

Github was hit by the biggest DDoS attack ever recorded (may be paywalled) on Wednesday. According to Akamai Prolexic the attack peaked at 1.3Tbps and this attack utilized memcached servers that return 50 times the data to the IP spoofed address of the victim. This kind of attack is called an...

This is quite a long read over at Wired, but it is incredibly interesting if you are into network security. Long story short, it all started with some geeks trying to bring down competitive Minecraft servers were the guys responsible for all sorts of DDoS attacks last year. THE MOST DRAMATIC...

In early May the FCC website was bombarded with traffic, which caused its website to temporarily crash while reportedly receiving 160 comments per minute about Net Neutrality. Gizmodo filed a FOIA request to get some information regarding records of the supposed cyber attack. The agency's chief...

I'm getting the message below: Is there a DNS issue? Or is some scrote doing a DDOS?

When I try to reach HardOCP.com I get the below from Cloudflare: So, another DDOS? Which AMD fanboy is behind it this time?