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Hive Engine nodes were attacked

27 May 2023 3 minute read 2 comments Bala

We all know that there are a bunch of idiots everywhere. When something is going well, there would always be some negative energy from different sides. From incidents like these, there are always frustrations and learning. For the past few days, the...

Publish0x DDoSed?

3 Apr 2022 3 minute read 37 comments Carlos MurgasCarrillo

Hey! What an odd day. In parallel to the tense situation worldwide, due to ___________ - you fill that, I decided to check some stats on Publish0x. To my surprise, this is what I found:   A "HTTP Error 503" text message on a website means that the s...

The Rising Danger of DDoS Attacks On BTC Sites

18 Jan 2021 5 minute read 0 comments MintDice.com

In March 2020, while the world was shutting down due to the spread of COVID-19, something weird was happening in online coding classes, their registration was spiking. The brutal implications of this were quickly realized as the number of DDoS attack...

Escaping DNS trap in OS X

17 Feb 2020 2 minute read 2 comments sergeylukin

In 2016 a DDoS attack shut down several popular internet sites, including Twitter, Github, PayPal, Reddit, etc. The blackout was a result of a global DDoS attack on Dyn, the domain name service used by these sites. In this post I'm going to talk abou...

Why ‘51% attack’ is still blockchain’s nightmare!

10 Feb 2020 3 minute read 7 comments paragism

Cover Image Source The Bitcoin Gold (BTG) blockchain recently suffered a 51% attack and it resulted in approximate $70,000 worth of BTG being double spent. The first attack took place on 23rd Jan, 2019. 14 blocks were removed from the blockchain and...