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GitHub knocked briefly offline by biggest DDoS attack ever

02

Mar

2018

The software development platform GitHub has suffered what is apparently the biggest distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on record.

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DDoS knocks down DNS, data centers across the U.S. affected

24

Oct

2016

On Friday morning, organizations across the internet – including GitHub, Twitter, Spotify, SoundCloud, Reddit, and the New York Times – disappeared after an attack was launched against Dyn Inc., an infrastructure provider that offers managed DNS services. The attack started early Friday morning and has lasted well into the afternoon. At the time this article […]

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New Locky ransomware version can operate in offline mode

15

Jul

2016

The creators of the widespread Locky ransomware have added a fallback mechanism in the latest version of their program for situations where the malware can’t reach their command-and-control servers. Security researchers from antivirus vendor Avira have found a new Locky variant that starts encrypting files even when it cannot request a unique encryption key from […]

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