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DDoS Attacks
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February, 2000: Mafiaboy Vs. Yahoo, CNN, eBay, Dell, & Amazon
"Mafiaboy," a.k.a. 15-year-old Michael Calce, set out to make a name for himself in February 2000 when he launched "Project Rivolta," which took down the website of the #1 search engine at the time—and second-most popular website—Yahoo. Thinking it may have been a fluke, he went on to batter the servers of CNN, eBay, Dell, and Amazon in a wave of highly-publicized attacks that were the first to show the world how easily one kid can knockout major websites. -
Root Server Denial of Service Attack
Some root name servers were unreachable from many parts of the global Internet due to congestion from the attack traffic delivered nearby. While all servers continued to answer all queries they received, many valid queries were unable to reach some root name servers due to attack-related congestion effects, and went unanswered. -
January 2008: Anonymous Vs. Scientology
The group’s mass-DDoS attack, coordinated using the same software program used to fight for Wikileaks this week, targeted Scientology.org, momentarily knocking it offline. Their goal: to “save people from Scientology by reversing the brainwashing." -
November of 2008, hacker spell
Double, double toil and trouble: In November of 2008, a large European news organization’s website was attacked. The site fell under the spell of a hacker for an hour and a half—marking the longest time the site had been offline during -
Conficker
Possessions: If there’s one word that causes shudders in Internet security circles, it’s Conficker. Beginning in late 2008, the Conficker worm exploited vulnerabilities in numerous Microsoft operating systems. It takes over an infected machine and links unwilling computers together into a massive botnet that even the most ritualistic of exorcisms cannot dismember -
Unknown siege
The websites of an Asian country’s largest daily newspaper, a large-scale online auction house, a bank, the country’s president, and many websites of the country’s North American ally came under DDoS attack. Upwards of 166,000 computers in a botnet unleashed wave after wave of a data-powered onslaught. -
July, 2009: Unknown Vs. United States & South Korea
For three days in July, 2009, the web sites of South Korean’s largest daily newspaper, a large-scale online auction house, a bank, the country’s president, the White House, the Pentagon and U.S. Forces Korea—to name a few—came under DDoS attack as upwards of 166,000 computers in a botnet unleashed wave after wave after wave of a data-powered onslaught -
August, 2009: Russia Vs. Georgian blogger “Cyxymu”
In the summer of 2009 as DDoS attackers operating from within Russia—it was alleged—sought to silence Georgian blogger “Cyxymu" attacking social networking sites. -
Annonymous DDoS attack on North Korea
He is alleged to have participated in a Feb. 28 attack using Low Orbit Ion Cannon against a Koch Industries website, "Kochind.com." The company is privately held with headquarters in Wichita, Kan., and has businesses in a number of areas including oil and manufacturing.
LOIC is a popular DDoS tool used by Anonymous and other online attackers to overload websites with requests and disrupt the target server. -
Spamhause attack
This Denial of Service attack simply overloads the victim's servers by flooding them with data, more data than the servers can handle. This can disrupt the victim's business, or knock its website offline
