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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. A cybersecurity executive was pardoned by Donald Trump. His ...

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    In 2020, Donald Trump pardoned cybersecurity executive Chris Wade for crimes that had been sealed. Unsealed documents show he was part of a sophisticated spam email operation busted by an informant.

  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. Denial-of-service attack - Wikipedia

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    In July 2021, CDN Provider Cloudflare boasted of protecting its client from a DDoS attack from a global Mirai botnet that was up to 17.2 million requests per second. [14] Russian DDoS prevention provider Yandex said it blocked a HTTP pipelining DDoS attack on Sept. 5. 2021 that originated from unpatched Mikrotik networking gear. [15]

  9. ‘Your money is being wasted’: Elon Musk just ... - AOL

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    World's richest man tells voters he will lower taxes.