2016
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Researcher believes major DDoS attacks part of military recon to shut down internet
Security researcher Bruce Schneier spotted a series of DDoS attacks which may be part of a larger effort to learn how to take down the internet on a national or…
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911 Is Vulnerable To DDoS Attacks
A new report has found that America’s emergency helpline number, 911, is vulnerable to Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. Interestingly, the threat of attack has previously been issued by…
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6 steps for defending against DDoS attacks
If your business hasn’t already faced a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, brace yourself: fake traffic is coming. Your DevOps team and IT service desk need an action plan…
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Attackers Launch DDoS Attacks And the Kitchen Sink
First off, full disclosure, I work for Akamai as my day job. I don’t want any illusion on the point as I discuss the latest State of the Internet…
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Business still ill-prepared to handle modern DDoS attacks
In September 1996, New York City’s original ISP, Panix, was hit by a SYN flood denial of service attack that took them offline for several days. At a…
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US 911 emergency system can be crippled by a mobile botnet
What would it take for attackers to significantly disrupt the 911 emergency system across the US? According to researchers from Ben-Gurion Univerisity of the Negev’s Cyber-Security Research Center,…
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Infected Android phones could flood America’s 911 with DDoS attacks
One killer trojanised app or $100k of hardware is enough. A research trio has shown how thousands of malware-infected phones could launch automated distributed denial of service attacks…
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DDoS Attacks Up by 75 Percent in Q2 2016
The largest attack detected in the second quarter peaked at 256 Gbps, according to Verisign. According to the Verisign DDoS Trends Report for the second quarter of 2016, the number…