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A bit of follow-up on Meetup’s DDoS (denial of service) attack which saw the company’s website and accompanying mobile services down for several days: according to the company, this was

Meetup has been suffering from a prolonged DDoS (denial of service) attack which has caused the service to experience intermittent outages across both web and mobile for several days. The site is curr

Distributed denial of service attacks have been one of the most common and well-known ways that malicious hackers have gone after companies on the web. But as cybercrime becomes more sophisticated and

The <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2013/11/29/thanksgiving-digest-ibm-e-commerce-edition-mobile-43-of-all-traffic-over-25-of-all-online-sales/">holiday season</a> e-commerce rush is <a href="https://

The ITU has <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2013/10/07/itu-6-8b-mobile-subs-by-end-of-2013-nearly-as-many-people-as-there-are-on-earth-2-7b-on-any-kind-of-internet/">recently published</a> figures not

Cyber security expert and serial entrepreneur Barrett Lyon has a new startup coming out of stealth today. The company, named Defense.net, specializes in mitigating DDoS attacks -- something Lyon knows

Reddit's involvement - whether <a target="_blank" href="http://gawker.com/5995025">good</a> or <a target="_blank" href="http://www.newstatesman.com/world-affairs/2013/04/reddit-boston-and-missing-stud

Services on code-sharing site <a target="_blank" href="http://www.github.com">GitHub</a> have been disrupted for over an hour in what started as a "<a target="_blank" href="https://status.github.com/m

Developing story: Ustream has sent out some details on the DDoS attack that is currently attacking its system -- which was reported on earlier by <a href="http://gigaom.com/video/ustream-down-bambuser

Everyone's favorite way to share thousands of pages of sensitive information (and dump PHP code that you might use later) has upgraded to what it's calling version 3.1. This new version, in addition t