According
to HACKMAGEDDON Information Security Timelines and Statistics biweekly report, hackers
carried out 52 attacks from January 13th to January 31st targeting different
entities including corporates, governments and individuals. This report is only
based on one source. There should be many that might not be reported
or HACKMAGEDDON didn’t find out. Looking at this and many recent incidents – the
popularity of DDoS is getting attracts my attention. Out of the 52 incidents 13
of them were DDoS.
As
defined on Wikipedia, a denial-of-service (DoS) attack is an attempt to make a machine
or network resource unavailable to its intended users, such as to temporarily
or indefinitely interrupt or suspend services of a host connected to the
Internet .A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) is where the
attack source is more than one–and often thousands of-unique IP addresses. It
is analogous to a group of people crowding the entry door or gate to a shop or
business, and not letting legitimate parties enter into the shop or business,
disrupting normal operations.
Government
related sites are the one mostly suffering from DDoS, and the common responsibility
takers are Anonymous hacktivists. Yesterday, January 7th is the latest
DDoS attack I found from the hackers associated with the Anonymous collective on North Korean
state websites in response to the country’s latest satellite launch. Retailers,
Financial Institution, Airports, Hospitals, Satellite Station controllers have suffered
from DDoS – Isn’t it Scary!
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