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ISPs are putting their enterprise customers at risk of DDoS attacks
The vast majority of enterprise end users (85%) want their ISPs to offer more comprehensive DDoS protection-as-a-service, according to Corero Network Security. The research, which polled over 100…
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Blizzard’s Battle.net Hit With Major DDoS Attack
When the waters finally calmed, Blizzard took to Twitter with the following message. That’s because some nefarious individuals launched a DDOS attack on the service. In fact, all…
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BadLock Opens Door for Samba-based MiTM, DDoS Attacks
Details of a new, high-impact vulnerability known as BadLock have been revealed, affecting Samba, the standard Windows interoperability suite of programs for Linux and Unix. As the researchers…
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Man pleads guilty for serving white hat with DoS, swearbot, sex toys
Electronic Tribulation Army has anger management problems Oklahoma man Benjamin Earnest Nichols faces up to 10 years jail in a United States federal prison and a US$250,000 fine…
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Anonymous Conducts Usual DDoS Attacks on Israel for #OpIsrael
“Anonymous” vows to carry on its annual assaults on Israeli infrastructure linked to its #OpIsrael campaign on April 7, 2015 — However, it seems more hype than harm The…
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DDoS Attacks With BillGates Linux Malware Intensify
XOR botnet authors migrate to using BillGates malware Over the past six months, security researchers from Akamai’s SIRT team have observed a shift in the cyber-criminal underground to…
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New application level attack bodes ill for hybrid DDoS protection
Imperva has recently witnessed a new type of DDoS attack they believe might become a go-to for cyber criminals looking to take sites and services down. The attack…