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Corero Network Security SmartWall TDS enhanced with automatic DDoS detection and mitigation
Corero Network Security announces that it has released a major update to its SmartWall Threat Defense System (TDS). Corero’s SmartWall Threat Defense System already delivers line-rate performance for…
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Hackers can rip open your company with AI… But AI can help you fight back
How? Join our October 7 online broadcast to find the answer Webcast Consider a world where cyber-attackers are using AI to refine, control and scale up their…
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4.83 million DDoS attacks took place in the first half of 2020, a 15% increase
Attackers focused on COVID-era lifelines such as healthcare, e-commerce, and educational services with complex, high-throughput attacks designed to overwhelm and quickly take them down, Netscout reveals. “The first…
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Plane-tracking site Flight Radar 24 DDoSed… just as drones spotted buzzing over Azerbaijan and Armenia
That’s one way of poking the world’s eyes out for a few hours Popular plane-tracking website Flight Radar 24 has been the victim of multiple DDoS attacks over…
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Bit-and-piece DDoS attacks increased 570% in Q2 2020
Attackers shifted tactics in Q2 2020, with a 570% increase in bit-and-piece DDoS attacks compared to the same period last year, according to Nexusguard. Perpetrators used bit-and-piece attacks…
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DDoS attacks rise in intensity, sophistication and volume
There have been significant shifts in DDoS attack patterns in the first half of 2020, a Neustar report reveals. There has been a 151% increase in the number…
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Product showcase: AppTrana
DDoS Attacks, bots, targeted attacks based on application vulnerabilities, have created a new wave of security challenges. Attackers are constantly targeting internet-connected endpoints and specifically web servers to…
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Sorry we shut you out, says Tutanota: Encrypted email service weathers latest of ongoing DDoS storms
Privacy-conscious biz insists on rolling its own mitigations, though Encrypted email biz Tutanota has apologised for accidentally shutting its own users out while fending off the latest of…
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When classes are online, how do you get out of school? Florida teen cuffed, charged after crashing cyber-lessons
Eight DDoS attacks targeted networks, virtual classrooms, say officials A teenager in America has apparently admitted knocking virtual learning classes offline with a string of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS)…
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DDoS cyberattacks have skyrocketed this year. Just ask the New Zealand stock exchange
The New Zealand stock exchange (NZX) website has gone down again in what appears to be the latest disruption caused by cyber attackers. The NZX website has been…