Pro Record for the largest ever HTTPS DDoS attack smashed once again The DDoS attack lasted 69 minutes and surpassed the previous record of 26m RPS 22 Aug
Pro Cloudflare fixes outage that knocked major Web services offline Online services such as Nord VPN, Shopify, and Steam were all inaccessible by users in most regions 21 Jun
Pro Another massive DDoS internet blackout could be imminent Check your DNS, and please, make it redundant. 1 Mar
Insights TechBeat: The distributed denial of service scourge While awareness is high, mitigation solutions and their management remain a challenge, writes PAUL HEARNS 12 Dec
Pro The secret behind the success of Mirai IoT botnets Public posting of the source code shows it is script-kiddie simple 28 Oct
Pro Attackers use exposed LDAP servers to amplify DDoS attacks LDAP adds to the existing arsenal of DDoS reflection and amplification techniques that can generate massive attacks 27 Oct
Pro Recent IoT-based DDoS attack rattles security experts Cyberattack that relied on IoT connected devices was serious, unusual, and historic 26 Oct
Pro IoT botnet is partly behind massive DDoS attack DVRs and other devices compromised with the Mirai malware are being the attack 24 Oct
Pro Botnet of hijacked IoT devices delivers massive DDoS attack Attack was so powerful that Akamai threw up its hands 26 Sep
Pro Massive DDoS attacks reach record levels Nineteen attacks exceeding 100Gb/s recorded during the first three months of 2016 8 Jun
Pro DDoS attacks increase in frequency across the globe Attacks are now repeated and sustained, finds Neustar survey 27 Apr
Pro Massive app-layer attacks could defeat hybrid DDoS protection Unusual application-layer DDoS attacks could spell trouble for defences 7 Apr
Pro Move your DMZ to the cloud for effective DDoS mitigation, argue Nostra’s Griffin and Kane Cloud scale can help combat large scale attacks 10 Feb
Pro DDoS attacks often mask something worse Distributed denial-of-service attacks in three-quarters of instances are accompanied by another security incident, finds Kaspersky Labs 18 Sep
Pro GitHub suffers its largest DDoS attack Anticensorship projects targeted with trail leading to China 30 Mar
Pro DDoS attacks less frequent but more dangerous last year Total number of attacks declined steadily last year, but size and complexity of average attack increased 30 Mar
Pro Symantec sees rise in high-traffic DDoS attacks Most common targets are gaming, software and media companies 23 Oct
Life RSS service Feedly vows to resist DDoS extortionists News aggregator goes dark as hackers swamp its servers 11 Jun
Pro DDoS attacks using SNMP amplification on the rise After using open DNS and NTP servers for DDoS amplification, attackers are also abusing the SNMP protocol 27 May
Life Bitcoin exchanges hit by DDoS attacks Bitstamp falls victim to online attacks that affect transaction receipts. 12 Feb
Pro Data centres now ‘magnets’ for DDoS attacks Arbor report finds bigger, more effective but also sneakier incidents of denial 31 Jan
Life Anonymous member sentenced to two years for Koch DDoS attack Rosol hit with $183,000 fine for cost of breach 3 Dec
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