November 2nd, 2009 
Mourad Ben Lakhoua According to thelocal news Swedish police website was subject for a DDoS attack last week. The result of this attack was a complete disrupt of the official website. On the High traffic the server can treat about 800 requests per second but during the attack they detected about 400 thousand requests per second which is [...]
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Tags: Botnet, Conficker, cyber attacks, Cybercrime, DDOS, zombies 
12 Comments » October 6th, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Bitbucket a web Service designed to host programming projects has faced an outages last weekend, the failure period was more than 19 hours which is relatively long. According to Amazon the incident was due to a DDoS attack on their computing infrastructure. This Attack can only brings a doubt in the IT services that are [...]
Posted in Cloud Computing Security, Cybercrime & Hacking Tags: Amazon, cyber attacks, DDOS 11 Comments » August 9th, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua On the 6th of August Twitter went down for a pretty long period. After a while a brief message was added on the Twitter status says they’re fighting off a DDOS attack right now. Well the most interesting that the distributed denial-of-service attack also affected Facebook, LiveJournal and Google’s Blogger. The idea of distributed denial-of-service [...]
Posted in Cybercrime & Hacking, Internet, News, Social Networking, Web Security Tags: Botnet, DDOS, denial of service, DOS attack, Facebook, Google, Security, Twitter, windows 2 Comments » March 15th, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Software used to control thousands of home computers has been acquired online by the BBC as part of an investigation into global cyber crime. The technology programme Click has demonstrated just how at risk PCs are of being taken over by hackers. Almost 22,000 computers made up Click’s network of hijacked machines, which has now [...]
February 5th, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua A new class of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, which can overwhelm even mainstream targets, is imminent, a security researcher warned this week. DNS amplification was first widely publicized about three years ago when computer security experts Gadi Evron and Randal Vaughn published a research paper that examined a scenario in which criminals abuse recursive DNS [...]
