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  2. Distributed denial-of-service attacks on root nameservers

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    During two intervals on November 30, 2015 and December 1, 2015, several of the root name servers received up to 5 million queries per second each, receiving valid queries for a single undisclosed domain name and then a different domain the next day. Source addresses were spread throughout IPv4 space, however these may have been spoofed.

  3. DDoS attacks on Dyn - Wikipedia

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    As a DNS provider, Dyn provides to end-users the service of mapping an Internet domain name—when, for instance, entered into a web browser—to its corresponding IP address. The distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack was accomplished through numerous DNS lookup requests from tens of millions of IP addresses. [ 6 ]

  4. Operation Payback - Wikipedia

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    On March 15, 2011, four days after the ruling, a report appeared on Law.com highlighting the judge's remark that the per-infringement award sought by the record companies might total in the "trillions"; the report estimated $75 trillion in its attention-grabbing headline (USA's nominal GDP in 2012-2013 was about $16–17 trillion). [60]

  5. Hackers hijack a wide range of companies' Chrome extensions ...

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    By Raphael Satter and AJ Vicens-Hackers have compromised several different companies' Chrome browser extensions in a series of intrusions dating back to mid-December, according to one of the ...

  6. Denial-of-service attack - Wikipedia

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    Diagram of a DDoS attack. Note how multiple computers are attacking a single computer. In computing, a denial-of-service attack (DoS attack) is a cyberattack in which the perpetrator seeks to make a machine or network resource unavailable to its intended users by temporarily or indefinitely disrupting services of a host connected to a network.

  7. New world record for internet speed is 4.5 million times ...

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    Researchers have set a new world record for internet speed that is 4.5 million times faster than the average broadband.. An international team that included scientists from Aston University in ...

  8. Over $100 trillion in wealth is about to be inherited— and ...

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    Put another way, of the $2.5 trillion being passed down every year, about $1 trillion is going to Gen Xers. Millennials will pick up the inheritance baton sometime around 2038, expected to inherit ...

  9. Billion laughs attack - Wikipedia

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    At the time this vulnerability was first reported, the computer memory used by a billion instances of the string "lol" would likely exceed that available to the process parsing the XML. While the original form of the attack was aimed specifically at XML parsers, the term may be applicable to similar subjects as well. [1]