Writing in the Imperva Data Security Blog, Rob Rachwald notes that by 22 April, downloads in 2012 surpassed the total for 2011 – that’s “142 downloads per hour,” he notes. “The US, France and Brazil ...

Amichai Schulman, chief technology officer at Imperva, said, "The tool was originally developed as an open-source network stress-testing tool. It was recently tweaked to include a central ...

The Low Orbit Ion Canon (LOIC) ‘do it yourself’ DDoS tool recently surpassed its download numbers for the whole of 2011 at a rate of nearly 3,500 per day, security firm Imperva has reported. By 22 ...

Anonymous is building a bigger, more vicious weapon to replace its current DDoS tool. The new attack program, called #RefRef, is being developed in time for the Blackhat conference in Las Vegas and ...

A security vendor has turned the tables on malicious hackers by releasing details of a vulnerability in a popular toolkit used to launch distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against corporate ...

Recent versions of Orbit Downloader, a popular Windows program for downloading embedded media content and other types of files from websites, turns computers into bots and uses them to launch ...

A Turkish hacking crew is running a DDoS-for-Points platform where participants can earn points if they carry out DDoS attacks against a list of predetermined targets, points they can exchange later ...