http://www.ddosinfo.com Fri, 11 Jan 2008 08:33:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.ddosinfo.com/2008/01/11/ddos-company-prolexic-bought-for-usd105-million/ 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 ... http://www.ddosinfo.com/2008/01/04/russian-army-shows-the-new-face-of-ddos-attacks/ 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 ... http://www.ddosinfo.com/2007/11/11/e-jihad-vs-storm/ clipped from blogs.zdnet.comDDOS on DNS: Stopping Internet blackouts Writing in National Journal's Technology Daily, Andrew Noyes discusses the possibility of a massive Internet blackout caused by a distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack on the backbone infrastructure of the 'Net. This type of high-tech ambush, which occurs ... http://www.ddosinfo.com/2007/04/21/ddos-on-dns-stopping-blackouts/ 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 ... http://www.ddosinfo.com/2007/04/19/law-firm-increases-web-security-after-spam-attack/ 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 ... http://www.ddosinfo.com/2007/01/01/2007-the-review-from-the-crystal-ball/ 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 ... http://www.ddosinfo.com/2006/12/28/richard-stiennons-top-ten-threats-for-2007/ 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 ... http://www.ddosinfo.com/2006/12/27/interview-with-derek-raines-from-gignet/ 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 ... http://www.ddosinfo.com/2006/12/24/ddos-attacks-possible-solutions/ 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 ... http://www.ddosinfo.com/2006/12/24/cafepresscom-gets-hit-by-ddos-attack/