2012
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Hacktivist Hints at New Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attacks
The hacktivists are now letting their words speak for their actions. For the third time in one month, a source claiming to be part of the self-proclaimed hacktivist…
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Protecting Your Network Against Distributed Denial of Service ‘DDoS’ Attacks
As leaders in their field, IT managers are tasked with the burden of not only managing but protecting company networks. Dedicated servers can be adversely affected by DDoS…
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Most Americans uninformed about DDoS attacks
Whether motivated by an extreme form of free expression or criminal intent, distributed denial-of-service attacks (DDoS attacks) are increasingly commonplace worldwide. Yet there remains a universal m…
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Evolving Distributed Denial of Service ‘DDoS’ Attacks Force Defenders to Adapt
Distributed denial-of-service attacks get bigger and combine application-layer exploits requiring defenders to be more agile. n the past, attackers using distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks to take down Web…
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Distributed Denial of Service ‘DDoS’ Attacks From Anonymous Cost PayPal £3.5 Million of Damage
The distributed denial of service attack (DDoS) from hacktivist Anonymous has cost PayPal more than €4.3 million . The attack which was named Operation Payback were initially aimed…
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The New Wave of Distributed Denial of Service ‘DDoS’ attacks: How to Prepare and Respond
What will you do if your organization is the next target of a distributed denial of service attack? Hacktivists recently launched DDoS attacks that caused online outages at…
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65% Of Organizations Experience Three Distributed Denial of Service ‘DDoS’ Attacks A Year
Despite the increasing sophistication and severity of cyber attacks, a survey of more than 700 senior IT professionals reveals that organizations are surprisingly unarmed to deal with today’s…
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65% of organizations experience three DDoS attacks a year
Despite the increasing sophistication and severity of cyber attacks, a survey of more than 700 senior IT professionals reveals that organizations are surprisingly unarmed to deal with today’s…
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What to Do About Distributed Denial of Service ‘DDoS’ attack
Leaders at four security technology companies say the distributed-denial-of-service attacks that have hit 10 U.S. banks in recent weeks highlight the need for new approaches to preventing and…
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Man arrested for Distributed Denial of Service ‘DDoS’ attack on Theresa May
A MAN HAS BEEN ARRESTED on suspicion of launching and promoting a denial of service attack on the website of UK Home Secretary Theresa May. The man is…