Authorities Target ‘Booter’ or ‘Stresser’ Services that Facilitate Internet Attacks LOS ANGELES – The Justice Department Thursday announced the seizure of 15 internet domains associated with DDoS-for-hire services, as well as criminal charges against three defendants who facilitated the computer attack platforms. The sites, which offered what are often called “booter” or “stresser” services, allowed […]
Anchorage, Alaska – U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced that David Bukoski, 24, of Hanover Township, Pennsylvania, was recently sentenced for operating a long-running Denial of Service (DoS) for-hire service, known as Quantum Stress, which allowed paying users to conduct wide-ranging attacks on individual and corporate victim domains and networks, preventing them from being able […]
The Lizard Squad group took down the Sony PlayStation Network on Sunday evening then took responsibility for the distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. Their attack took down the network for several hours. They posted responsibility for the the DDoS attack on the Twitter page. This is the third attack on Sony in four months. The Lizard Squad […]
