DDoS attacks come in all shapes and sizes. They are used to harm businesses, extort money, annoy system administrators, test vulnerabilities, and many other, mostly malicious reasons. A DDoS attack is typically meant to target a specific service, such as a website. By taking the website offline, the attacker accomplishes whatever goal he set for. […]
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Zombie Routers That Just Refuse To Die
Scans of the internet reveal that over fifty three thousand IPs respond with dilapidated devices operating the ancient RIPv1 protocol. This deprecated protocol was implemented before much care was given to the proliferation of spoofed UDP attacks. It hails from a time before classless internet address routing, and long before the surging threat of ddos […]
Telegram messaging app cops 200Gbps DDoS
‘Someone from East Asia is pissed’ say admins, but our cyborgs are fighting back Popular messaging platform Telegram has been hit with a 200Gbps distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. The Tsunami TCP SYN flood kicked off on Friday and hurt users in Asia, Australia, and Oceania, knocking out the service for some five percent […]
CloudFlare can’t stop DDoS attacks ?
Most of the time I see this happen because someone mistakenly thinks we are a DDoS service & mentions it on board. When it comes to an attack, unfortunately, people rush to find a quick fix to the problem. There are some things that we do that can help with smaller attacks & there are […]
OVH IP Configure firewall Add Rule for Anti DDOS
Mitigation is a term employed to design the means and measures in place that reduce the negative effects of a DDoS attack. You need OVH IP Configure firewall Add Rule for Anti DDOS. Mitigation consists of filtering illegitmate traffic and hoovering it up with the VAC, while letting legitmate packets pass. The VAC consists of […]
DDoS Wars: The Network Strikes Back
It’s time your IT department rebelled against the cybercrime empire, says Srinivasan CR, VP of global product management, data centre services at Tata Communications Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks have been making a lot of headlines in the last year – particularly through the work of the Lizard Squad, the cyber criminals behind the […]
Canadian government sites were attacked by DDoS
‘Anonymous’ says it cyberattacked federal government to protest Bill C-51 Around 1:30 pm ET on Tuesday afternoon, Canadian government websites became inaccessible due to a denial-of-service attack, The Globe and Mail reported. The attack affected industry, employment, national resources, fisheries and oceans, justice, labor, foreign affaisr, environment and transportation related websites. A denial-of-service attack, sometimes […]
AINA Brought Down By DDoS Attack
AINA’s website was the target of a massive distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack which made the site unavailable for more than one week. The attack was launched on June 8 and continued until yesterday. The source of the attack is unknown. A DDOS attack floods a site with hundreds of thousands of requests, which […]
Safeguarding Against DDoS Attacks
DDoS Attacks: Situation Overview Over the last decade, Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks have continued to proliferate, becoming one of the primary threat types facing virtually every industry and business area that is exposed to the public Internet. Therefore, DDoS protection must be at the core of a successful security strategy. DDoS attacks attempt […]
DDoS Activity in the Context of Hong Kong’s Pro-democracy Movement
In early August, we examined data demonstrating a striking correlation between real-world and online conflict [1], which ASERT tracks on a continual basis [2-7]. Recent political unrest provides another situation in which strong correlative indicators emerge when conducting time-series analysis of DDoS attack data. The latest round of pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong began on […]
Google Chrome extension turned users into a DDoS botnet
turned users’ PCs into a botnet, without their consent. Hola, an online service used for watching blocked videos and TV shows from websites outside of your country, has turned users’ PCs into a botnet without their consent. According to The Verge, the free-to-use software – which is available as a Chrome plugin – was secretly […]
Top & The best betting website hosting
If you want to host a gambling affiliate website, or even run your own online sports-betting, poker, casino or lotto service, you’ll need an Web Hosting Services. Also, do not rule out the United Kingdom for gambling-related hosting. The UK is a stable European jurisdiction, with well-established laws that favor gaming, and has fast access […]
The Best DDoS Protection web Hosting Review
A Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) attack is something that makes even the hardiest of webmasters and administrators cringe. A DDOS attack, when done correctly, can bring a website to its knees, costing precious pageviews and ad revenue. DDOS attacks are becoming more advanced, and so the smart webmaster will seek to mitigate the damages […]
Everything About OVH (datacenter)
OVH is The number 3 internet hosting company in the world. 200 000 servers 17 data centers 16 countries 18M web applications hosted Data Center Since opening the first OVH data center in Paris in 2003, OVH hasn’t stopped innovating in the design, deployment and maintenance of its server hosting infrastructures. It now counts a […]
Infrastructure Protection for Individual IP Addresses
Our third and final announcement for today is a new service that allows more organizations to benefit from Incapsula DDoS protection solutions. This new feature overcomes an innate router limitation that restricts the deployment of BGP-enabled protection to users with at least an entire Class C IP subnet. This minimum requirement prevents owners of smaller […]
Incapsula’s DDoS Protection
Secure your website against all types of DDoS attacks – including network, application and DNS targeted attacks. With vast global network capacity, our “always on” service mitigates the largest and smartest DDoS attacks. Infrastructure Protection, leveraging BGP routing and GRE tunnels, lets you protect critical infrastructure (e.g., web, email, FTP, VoIP) on demand across entire […]
Hackers prey on Russian patriotism to grow the Kelihos botnet
The cybercriminal gang behind the Kelihos botnet is tricking users into installing malware on their computers by appealing to pro-Russian sentiments stoked by recent international sanctions against the country. The Kelihos botnet, also known as Hlux, is a botnet mainly involved in the theft of bitcoins and spamming. Researchers from security firms Websense and Bitdefender […]
startup GitHub after five-day DDoS attack
The collaborative coding site scrambled to withstand the opening salvo from what researchers dubbed China’s Great Cannon. But CEO Chris Wanstrath says that was just the beginning. To survive, startups must surmount challenges like product development, funding negotiations and cash flow. GitHub CEO Chris Wanstrath can add a very different challenge to his list: a […]
Microsoft ,Sony and Nintendo VS DDoS Attacks
Microsoft ,Sony and Nintendo VS DDoS Attacks ! We may all have different gaming preferences, but we can probably all agree that DDoS attacks suck. Whether it’s the PlayStation Network or Xbox Live that goes down, seeing services get targeted by code junkies for their own selfish entertainment is never nice; at the end of […]
Bypass Cloudflare DDoS protection
First of all, let me explain how user integrity check works and why it is a problem for HTTP based (layer 7) attacks. Basically, it checks for two different factors: Cookies validation and Javascript validation. The flood must pass these two factors in order to access the website. Now the cookies validation is quite easy […]