Browsing the "distributed denial of service attack" Tag

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Sparkler

Another massive DDoS internet blackout could be imminent

1 Mar Check your DNS, and please, make it redundant.

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TechBeat: The distributed denial of service scourge

12 Dec While awareness is high, mitigation solutions and their management remain a challenge, writes PAUL HEARNS

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Robots

The secret behind the success of Mirai IoT botnets

28 Oct Public posting of the source code shows it is script-kiddie simple

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Attackers use exposed LDAP servers to amplify DDoS attacks

27 Oct LDAP adds to the existing arsenal of DDoS reflection and amplification techniques that can generate massive attacks

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Recent IoT-based DDoS attack rattles security experts

26 Oct Cyberattack that relied on IoT connected devices was serious, unusual, and historic

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IoT botnet is partly behind massive DDoS attack

24 Oct DVRs and other devices compromised with the Mirai malware are being the attack

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Botnet of hijacked IoT devices delivers massive DDoS attack

26 Sep Attack was so powerful that Akamai threw up its hands

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Massive DDoS attacks reach record levels

8 Jun Nineteen attacks exceeding 100Gb/s recorded during the first three months of 2016

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DDoS attacks increase in frequency across the globe

27 Apr Attacks are now repeated and sustained, finds Neustar survey

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Massive app-layer attacks could defeat hybrid DDoS protection

7 Apr Unusual application-layer DDoS attacks could spell trouble for defences

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Move your DMZ to the cloud for effective DDoS mitigation, argue Nostra’s Griffin and Kane

10 Feb Cloud scale can help combat large scale attacks

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DDoS attacks often mask something worse

18 Sep Distributed denial-of-service attacks in three-quarters of instances are accompanied by another security incident, finds Kaspersky Labs

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Asian datacentre hit by 334Gb/s DDoS attack

29 Apr Not as big a recent incident, but significant

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GitHub suffers its largest DDoS attack

30 Mar Anticensorship projects targeted with trail leading to China

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Network connections

DDoS attacks less frequent but more dangerous last year

30 Mar Total number of attacks declined steadily last year, but size and complexity of average attack increased

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Symantec sees rise in high-traffic DDoS attacks

23 Oct Most common targets are gaming, software and media companies

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Declan Goode, Agile Networks

DDoS danger clear for many businesses, says Agile’s Goode

10 Sep

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Data waves

RSS service Feedly vows to resist DDoS extortionists

11 Jun News aggregator goes dark as hackers swamp its servers

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Evernote hit by denial of service attack

11 Jun "Hiccup" affects 100m users

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DDoS attacks using SNMP amplification on the rise

27 May After using open DNS and NTP servers for DDoS amplification, attackers are also abusing the SNMP protocol

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