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World Of Warcraft: Legion’ Goes Down As Blizzard Servers Hit With DDoS
To commemorate the launch of the latest World of Warcraft expansion, Legion , Blizzard’s servers were taken down by a DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack on Wednesday.…
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Rio 2016 Olympics Suffered Sustained 540Gbps DDoS Attacks
Arbor security claims Rio was a success in terms of mitigating powerful, prolonged DDoS attacks Public facing websites belonging to organisations affiliated with the 2016 Rio Olympics were…
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DOSarrest Expands Into Second City in Asia
DOSarrest Expands Into Second City in Asia VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA–(Marketwired – Aug. 30, 2016) – DOSarrest Internet Security announced today that they have expanded their DDoS protection cloud…
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?The top 5 least-wanted malware in any corporate IT infrastructure
Ask a group of people to define malware, and you’re likely to get a range of different answers. The term has become a catch-all description for a broad…
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DNSSEC: Don’t throw the baby out with the bath water
A recent report raiseed concerns about the abuse of DNSSEC to conduct DDoS attacks. The article reported that DNSSEC-signed domains can be used to conduct reflected DDoS attacks…
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Attacks increase as a result of DDoS-for-hire services
DDoS attacks have increased in frequency, scale and complexity over the past year, driven by DDoS-for-hire services, according to a new report. DDoS-for-hire services have caused attacks to…
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“The amount of traffic, or bandwidth, that is able to be generated and used as a weapon is at an all-time high.,” said one expert.
The company measured threats faced by its customers during a roughly one-year time period, seeing a 211 percent year-over-year increase in attacks. More commonly known as DDoS attacks, they are designed…
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Blizzard’s Battle.net servers hit by yet another DDoS attack
Gaming servers are a top target of DDoS assaults,’ Imperva security researcher Ofer Gayer told IBTimes UK. Developer Blizzard’s Battle.net servers were hit with yet another DDoS attack…