Publicly listed firm IPVG Corp. (IPVG) has announced the acquisition of Prolexic Technologies Inc. (Prolexic), a United States-based managed security service provider of distributed denial of service (DDOS) mitigation solutions, the company said.
IPVG has initiated a stock purchase agreement with stockholders of Prolexic for the purchase of 100 percent of the company’s capital stock, IPVG […]
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DDoS Company - Prolexic Bought for USD10.5 Million
Published January 11th, 2008 in DDoS News and DDoS Vendors. 0 CommentsRussian army shows the new face of DDoS attacks
Published January 4th, 2008 in DDoS News. 0 Comments
In late April, a Russian-speaking blogger upset with recent events in Estonia posted a series of dispatches calling on like-minded people to attack government servers in that country.
…VolchenoK’s dispatch was echoed in posts on other Russian-speaking websites and helped set the groundwork for more than a week of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, which […]
Massive DDoS Attack on its way? - E-Jihad vs. Storm
Published November 11th, 2007 in DDoS News. 0 Comments
The countdown to Nov 11th and the most recently rumored “cyber Jihad” against the West has sparked some other questions. One in particular is the comparison of their individual capabilities for possible denial of service (DoS) attacks.
Symantec’s analysis of the purported DoS tool to be used in this “E-Jihad,” known as “E-Jihad 3.0,†has shown […]
Law Firm Increases web Security After Spam Attack
Published April 19th, 2007 in DDoS News. 0 Comments
Scottish law firm MacRoberts has improved its online security after suffering a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack.
The attack at the end of 2006 took the company’s entire inbound and outbound emails out of service for two days.
‘Things ground to a halt very quickly,’ said David Murphy, director of IT at MacRoberts.
‘Mail was […]
This post is from the Heise Security website and it attempts to predict the trends for 2007.
It’s the season of the end-of-the-year reviews. We have used our crystal ball to jump forwards a year to provide you the ultimate review of 2007 — here and now.
2007 was the year of the super bots: Never before […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
