How an Obscure Company Took Down Big Chunks of the Internet

You may not have heard of Fastly, but you felt its impact when sites didn’t load around the world Tuesday morning...

Cut Undersea Cable Plunges Yemen Into Days-Long Internet Outage

The fragility of global internet infrastructure has left the entire Red Sea region struggling to connect...

An illegal prostitution ring took Kazakhstan offline

By Sudais On 31st July 2019, internet users within Kazakhstan experienced a show of dismay unseen before. Suddenly, hundreds of website could not be accessed. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: An illegal prostitution ring took Kazakhstan offline...

Hacker Who Knocked Million Routers Offline Using MIRAI Arrested at London Airport

British police have arrested a suspect in connection with the massive attack on Deutsche Telekom that hit nearly 1 Million routers last November. Late last year, someone knocked down more than 900,000 broadband routers belonging to Deutsche Telekom users in Germany, which affected the telephony,...

DDoS Attack Takes Down Central Heating System Amidst Winter In Finland

Just Imaging — What if, you enter into your home from a chilling weather outside, and the heating system fails to work because of a cyber attack, leaving you in the sense of panic? The same happened late last month when an attack knocks heating system offline in Finland. Last week, a Distributed...

More Insights On Alleged DDoS Attack Against Liberia Using Mirai Botnet

On Thursday, we compiled a story based on research published by a British security expert reporting that some cyber criminals are apparently using Mirai Botnet to conduct DDoS attacks against the telecommunication companies in Liberia, a small African country. In his blog post, Kevin Beaumont...

Someone is Using Mirai Botnet to Shut Down Internet for an Entire Country

Note — We have published an updated article on what really happened behind the alleged DDoS attack against Liberia using Mirai botnet. Someone is trying to take down the whole Internet of a country, and partially succeeded, by launching massive distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks using a...

Massive DDoS Attack Against Dyn DNS Service Knocks Popular Sites Offline

UPDATE — How an army of million of hacked Internet-connected smart devices almost broke the Internet today. Cyber attacks are getting evil and worst nightmare for companies day-by-day, and the Distributed Denial of Service DDoS attack is one such attacks that cause a massive damage to any service...

North Korea Online Amid 'Proportional Response' Speculation

Ten hours after North Korea’s fragile and limited Internet connectivity disappeared on Monday, the isolated country was back online last night. While that much is certain, it’s still unknown who was behind the outage and why. Naturally, after promising on Friday a “proportional response,” immedia...

Internet Blocked Briefly in Syria

Sometime around 2:45 PM EDT yesterday, Syria’s BGP routes were severed and the country disappeared from the Internet. Just as quickly as it had fallen, Syria came back online this morning. In March, the Middle Eastern nation entered the third year of a violent conflict in which the country’s ruli...

How to Beat Evil Governments When Your Internet Turned Off ?

How to Beat Evil Governments When Your Internet Turned Off ? Bruce Sutherland explain at DefCon 19 Conference that "How To Get Your Message Out When Your Government Turns Off The Internet " . Bruce Sutherland is a network systems architect and software developer with Domex Computer Services Inc,...

How to Beat Evil Governments When Your Internet Turned Off ?

How to Beat Evil Governments When Your Internet Turned Off ? Bruce Sutherland explain at DefCon 19 Conference that "How To Get Your Message Out When Your Government Turns Off The Internet" . Bruce Sutherland is a network systems architect and software developer with Domex Computer Services Inc,...

Vodafone Network Seized by Egyptian Authorities to Spread Propaganda Via Text Message

Vodafone released a statement yesterday confirming that the authorities in Egypt seized their network to send propaganda text messages to the Egyptian people. Such text messages have been sent since the start of the protests in an attempt to cool tensions among the protestors who are demanding th...

Amid Protests, Egypt Severs Ties to Internet

Amidst growing popular protests, Egypt has been severed from the Internet, according to reports from Intenet monitors and reporters within the country. The Associated Press and Reuters both confirmed reports of widespread outtages within Egypt affecting customers of all of the country’s main ISPs...

Massive Denial Of Service Attack Severs Myanmar From Internet

The nation of Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, found its access to the Internet severed by a massive denial of service attack, according to a report by Arbor Networks. The source or motivation of the attack isn’t known, but it is believed that the distributed denial of service DDoS attacks have...