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Project Shield is an anti-distributed-denial-of-service (anti-DDoS) that is offered by Jigsaw, a subsidiary of Google, to websites that have "media, elections, and human rights related content." [ 1 ] The main goal of the project is to serve "small, under-resourced news sites that are vulnerable to the web's growing epidemic of DDOS attacks ...
Low Orbit Ion Cannon (LOIC) is an open-source network stress testing and denial-of-service attack application written in C#.LOIC was initially developed by Praetox Technologies, however it was later released into the public domain [2] and is currently available on several open-source platforms.
Diagram of a DDoS attack. Note how multiple computers are attacking a single computer. In computing, a denial-of-service attack (DoS attack) is a cyber-attack in which the perpetrator seeks to make a machine or network resource unavailable to its intended users by temporarily or indefinitely disrupting services of a host connected to a network.
Cloudflare provides free and paid DDoS mitigation services that protect customers from distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. Cloudflare received media attention in June 2011 for providing DDoS mitigation for the website of LulzSec, a black hat hacking group. [35]
On March 24, 2023, there was a DDoS attack on the site of Prague Integrated Transport website about public transportation in Prague. The website was unavailable for several hours. The Noname057(16) claimed responsibility for the attack. Also, the website of Florenc Central Bus Station was also affected by this attack. [28]
High Orbit Ion Cannon (HOIC) is an open-source network stress testing and denial-of-service attack application designed to attack as many as 256 URLs at the same time. It was designed to replace the Low Orbit Ion Cannon which was developed by Praetox Technologies and later released into the public domain.
Lizard Squad was a black hat hacking group, mainly known for their claims of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks [1] primarily to disrupt gaming-related services.. On September 3, 2014, Lizard Squad seemingly announced that it had disbanded [2] only to return later on, claiming responsibility for a variety of attacks on prominent websites.
Nevertheless, DDoS attacks on the root zone are taken seriously as a risk by the operators of the root nameservers, and they continue to upgrade the capacity and DDoS mitigation capabilities of their infrastructure to resist any future attacks.