After reviewing their current signature based
Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) and evaluating several other IPS
solutions available on the market, Planeetta selected the IG200 to
protect its customer maintained servers and network operation center
(NOC) from a growing threat of DDoS attacks, protocol anomaly based
hacking, scans and other zero-day exploits. Such network floods were
occurring on a monthly basis and […]
Archive for November, 2006
Amazon.com DDoS’ed by Customers Vote Winner
Published November 24th, 2006 in DDoS News. 0 Comments
In case you were hoping to take advantage of the Amazon Customers Vote deal for a $100 Xbox 360 on Thanksgiving, Amazon.com was reportedly not reachable from least 2-2:15pm EST (11am-11:15am PST). Presumably, the traffic caused by the $100 Xbox seekers was simply too much.
Some people are complaining that they couldn’t even load the Amazon […]
Websites struggling for legal recourse for DoS attacks
Published November 24th, 2006 in DDoS News. 0 Comments
Websites blocked by ISPs when under a distributed denial of service attack (DDoS) face millions of pounds in lost business because ISPs refuse to take responsibility for hosting infected computers on their networks.
Typically, a distributed denial of service attack relies on an attacker remotely controlling numerous and widely distributed computers infected by viruses and Trojans. […]
Anti-DDoS firm not involved in criminal activity says spokesman
One of the indicted companies in the major Giordano Internet sports betting bust, Prolexic Technologies was quick to protest its innocence following the public announcement of the New York case this week.
Prolexic is a well respected company in the forensic and DDOS field, and it took immediate […]
Just as Internet users learn that clicking on a link in an e-mail purporting to come from their bank is a bad idea, phishers seem to be developing a new tactic — launch a DDoS attack on the Web site of the company whose customers they are targeting and then send e-mails "explaining" the outage […]
A law was passed yesterday that makes it an offence to launch a denial of service attack in the UK, punishable by up to ten years in prison.
There had been concern that Britain’s Computer Misuse Act, written in the days before the World Wide Web, allowed denial of service attacks to fall through a loophole. […]
Layered Technologies Partners with netZentry to Offer Hosting Customers Complete DDoS Protection
Published November 9th, 2006 in DDoS Vendors. 0 Comments
netZentry, a leading developer of advanced network security and Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack detection and mitigation solutions, is partnering with Layered Technologies (http://www.layeredtech.com), a premier provider of dedicated servers, to offer hosting customers this extra protection from external network attacks.
"Customers electing to add netZentry received more control and extra security on a targeted […]
U.K. company brings anti-DDoS appliances to the U.S.
Published November 8th, 2006 in DDoS Vendors. 0 CommentsWebscreen Technology is relaunching its denial-of-service mitigation appliances in the United States after 18 months of concentrating its efforts abroad. The company was founded in the United States in 2001 and was bought by a group of U.K. investors […]
Webscreen Technology Ltd , the UK
based network integrity solutions vendor has today announced a strategic
technology partnership with Crossbeam Systems®, Inc ., the leader in
unified threat management (UTM) for the world’s largest networks ,
strengthening Webscreen’s claim to be the world leader in DDoS defence
system technology.
Webscreen’s technology has been developed to provide maximum
protection against the full […]
Messagelabs are reporting that cyber criminals are assembling a million zombies into one of the largest bot-nets ever. This article speculates that the purpose will be to launch phishing attacks against consumers who are ready to shop this holiday season. Other possibilities are spreading malware or launching massive DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks. One […]
