Richard Stiennon has announced his top ten threats for 2007 on his blog at ZDNet. His top ten threats are as follows.
100% Growth in revenue for cyber crime
DDoS in support of phishing attacks
Successful DDoS attack against a financial services firm
Attacks against DNS are the threat of the year
No abatement in identity theft
More attacks against wireless […]
The Host Guru are running an interview with Derek Raines of Gigenet which is well known for the DDoS attack filtering they offer their customers. Derek talks about the industry they are in, the types of customers they service, the attacks they have thwarted and whether or not fears of internet terrorism is driving […]
One of the biggest ongoing challenges in networking continues to be the struggle against distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. Unlike the similarly-named denial of service (DoS) attack, which is easily controlled by filtering all packets from a particular source IP address, a distributed DOS attack usually includes traffic generated by large numbers of host […]
CafePress.com, which provides online stores for thousands of blogs and web sites, has been hit with a distributed denial of service attack (DDoS) which has disrupted service for many of its merchants during the critical final shopping days before Christmas.
The attack began Tuesday evening and was continuing to cause “significant service interruptions” late Thursday. The […]
"EveryDNS, sister company to OpenDNS (which runs the PhishTank anti-phishing initiative), has been hit by a massive distributed denial-of-service attack. The attack started sometime Friday afternoon and, from all indications, was targeting Web sites that used free DNS management services provided by EveryDNS. At the height of the DDoS bombardment, EveryDNS was being hit with […]
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