2015
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BitTorrent’s Project Maelstrom will host websites in torrents
When you enter a URL and hit enter, your computer reaches out to a server someplace in the world to access a website. Sometimes a site is stored…
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Latest Lizard Squad hack shows increasing strength of DDoS attacks
Bill Barry, executive vice president, Nexusguard, has prepared a comment in light of the recent Lizard Squad hack on Taylor Swift’s Twitter account: “The hack on Taylor Swift proves…
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Nearly half of all DDoS attacks use multiple attack vectors
Akamai released a new security report that provides analysis and insight into the global attack threat landscape including DDoS attacks. Akamai observed a 52 percent increase in average…
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Nearly half of all DDoS attacks uses multiple attack vectors
Akamai released a new security report that provides analysis and insight into the global attack threat landscape including DDoS attacks. Akamai observed a 52 percent increase in average…
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We take bots down, but they get up again – you’re never going to keep them down
Dell analysis shows ZeroAccess botnet still slinging out A combined attack on one of the world’s biggest networks of infected PCs has been partially successful: analysis from Dell…
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How much can a DDoS attack cost your organization?
A DDoS attack on a company’s online resources might cause considerable losses – with average figures ranging from $52,000 to $444,000 depending on the size of the company.…
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A new kind of DDoS threat: The “Nonsense Name” attack
There’s a new species of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack targeting name servers, which could be called the “nonsense name” attack. It can wreak havoc on recursive…
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Facebook downtime was due to server fault, not DDoS attack
Unless you were living under a rock or had something better to do than check Facebook every single minute, you would have realised that both Facebook and Instagram…
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Android Wi-Fi Direct DoS vulnerability discovered
Some Android devices are affected by a Denial of Service attack when scanning for WiFi Direct devices, according to Andres Blanco from the CoreLabs Team. An attacker could…
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Great Firewall of China blasts DDoS attacks at random IP addresses
An upgrade to China’s Great Firewall is having knock-on effects all over the internet, with seemingly random sites experiencing massive traffic spikes. One site owner in North Carolina,…