• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Jul-02-2015
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on Attackers abuse legacy routing protocol to amplify DDoS attacks

Servers could be haunted by a ghost from the 1980s, as hackers have started abusing an obsolete routing protocol to launch distributed denial-of-service attacks.DDoS attacks observed in May by the research team at Akamai abused home and small busine... Read More

• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Jul-02-2015
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Thursday, July 2

Want an IPv4 address? Get in lineCould IPv6’s day be near? The stockpile of unused IPv4 addresses in North America has fallen so low that there’s now a waiting list. On Wednesday, for the first time, the American Registry for […]

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• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Jul-02-2015
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Thursday, July 2

Want an IPv4 address? Get in lineCould IPv6’s day be near? The stockpile of unused IPv4 addresses in North America has fallen so low that there’s now a waiting list. On Wednesday, for the first time, the American Registry for […]

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• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Jul-01-2015
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on DEA agent pleads guilty to accepting Silk Road funds

A Drug Enforcement Administration agent intimately involved in the Silk Road investigation admitted on Wednesday he secretly accepted bitcoins from the underground website’s operator and illegally took other funds.Carl Mark Force IV, who was a DEA agent for 15 years, […]

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