DOS attack

Verizon blocks 4chan websites for sending DoS attacks

February 9, 2010 - 7:35am | Fraud | News
Verizon blocks 4chan websites for sending DoS attacks

Earlier this week Verizon Wireless temporarily blocked traffic from some Web sites affiliated with the 4chan online forum on the grounds that some affiliate sites were apparently launching network attacks.


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Nations should be well equipped to meet the challenge of the cyber World War III

October 6, 2009 - 5:08am | Analytics | News
Nations should be well equipped to meet the challenge of the cyber World War III

 At the opening of the ITU Telecom World exhibition and forum in Geneva on Monday Hamadoun Touré, secretary general of the International Telecommunication Union, the United Nations agency that organized the event, warned that the world faces the third global war in the cyber space.

"The next world war could begin in cyberspace," warned Touré.


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DOS attack hits CBA’s NetBank services

July 10, 2009 - 8:19am | Fraud | News
DOS attack hits CBA’s NetBank services

The Commonwealth Bank of Australia confirmed on June 30, 2009 that its online banking service, NetBank, had been hit by Denial-of-Service attack, in which hackers send huge number of requests to a website thus overloading it to the point of collapse. However, the bank stated that there were no instances of customer accounts being hijacked.


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