Popular web-based Git repository hosting service GitHub has been battling a massive DDoS attack – the biggest they have ever experienced – for the last four days. “The attack began around 2AM UTC o…
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How DDoS attacks impact service providers
There's a striking disparity between how threatened service providers feel by potential DDoS attacks and how prepared they are to mitigate one, according to a Black Lotus survey. The findings demonstr…
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How DDoS attacks impact service providers
A proactive approach to DDoS attack prevention
The increase in the frequency, volume and sophistication of DDoS attacks has helped boost the awareness of these threats among Asia-Pacific (APAC) enterprises. New analysis from Frost & Sullivan fi…
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A proactive approach to DDoS attack prevention
Companies expects others to protect them against DDoS attacks
One in five businesses surveyed believe that their online services should be protected against DDoS attacks by their IT service providers (in particular, network providers). However, this responsibili…
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Companies expects others to protect them against DDoS attacks
2014 in infosec: Spammers sneak small botnets under the wire, Java is dull
Crims also move to Silverlight, according to Cisco Cisco’s annual report on the state of global cybersecurity claims spammers just won’t die and are using new tactics to avoid detection by filters; malware programmers are abandoning exploiting Java; and there’s a possible silver cloud in the Sony Pictures hacking storm.…
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2014 in infosec: Spammers sneak small botnets under the wire, Java is dull
London teen pleads guilty to Spamhaus DDoS
Sentence will be passed in January next year A 17 year-old Londoner has pleaded guilty to a series of denial-of-service attacks against internet exchanges and the Spamhaus anti-spam service last year.…
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London teen pleads guilty to Spamhaus DDoS
‘Most advanced mobile botnet EVER’ is coming for your OFFICE Androids
NotCompatible A newly discovered variant of NotCompatible is establishing what has been called the most advanced mobile botnet yet created.…
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‘Most advanced mobile botnet EVER’ is coming for your OFFICE Androids
Asian mobiles the DDOS threat of 2015, security mob says
Beware traffic from hacked Vietnam, India and Indonesia fondleslabs Vietnam, India and Indonesia will be the distributed denial of service volcanoes of next year due to the profieration of pwned mobiles, according to DDoS security bod Shawn Marck.…
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Asian mobiles the DDOS threat of 2015, security mob says
Holy cow! Fasthosts outage blamed on DDoS hack attack AND Windows 2003 vuln
Monday, bloody Monday Fasthosts’ five-hour collapse today has been blamed on a Distributed Denial of Service attack and a security flaw spotted on its Windows 2003 shared web server kit.…
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Holy cow! Fasthosts outage blamed on DDoS hack attack AND Windows 2003 vuln
Dormant IP addresses RIPE for hijacking
‘That’s not us spamming, honest’ cries hosting firm Spammers are using loop holes in the internet routing registry to commandeer address space and pump out junk mail, and potentially launch denial of service attacks and steal traffic.…
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Dormant IP addresses RIPE for hijacking