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 […]
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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 […]
Dominate Method Attack
Dominate Method Attack is a New method of DDoS Attack on Layer4 of Network. the method is able to drop servers from ddos protected networks such as OVH, Voxility by bypassing their firewall and sending the attack straight to the server itself, therefore causing it crash completely. As for the moment, as a server owner […]
Great Firewall of China is a DDoS Machine?
China’s Golden Shield Project, also known as the Great Firewall of China (GFW), is a government controlled network firewall that monitors every bit of internet traffic generated inside of China. The political and ideological background of the Golden Shield Project is considered to be one of Deng Xiaoping’s favorite sayings in the early 1980s: “If […]
Staminus – Keeping You Connected
Founded in 1998, Staminus Communications provides industry-leading DDoS mitigation and secured hosting services to users and companies around the globe. As the oldest DDoS mitigation firm around, Staminus has evolved into the world’s most advanced DDoS mitigation company. Staminus’ flagship DDoS mitigation application, SecurePort was developed over several years and was first released for internal […]
GHOST – Linux Security Hole – DDoS Risk?
The researchers at Qualys found a widespread bug in the Linux GNU C Library called glibc that affects a wide cross-section of exposed systems on the Internet. The vulnerability allows malicious players to remotely commandeer a system using a technique known as heap buffer overflow. You may remember Qualys from their popular webapp vulnerability reports […]
SECURITY OPERATIONS CENTER
The best DDoS security operations center for DDoS protection In a world of rising cyber threats, it’s simply not enough to rely exclusively on automated anti-DDoS tools or bandwidth reserves for DDoS detection and protection. And that’s what really separates Prolexic from other DDoS mitigation service providers. We have the largest DDoS mitigation staff of […]
FCC advised on Remediation of DDoS Attacks
Yesterday, the Communications Security, Reliability and Interoperability Council (CSRIC), a federal advisory committee to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), submitted its final report on Remediation of Server-based DDoS Attacks. The CSRIC’s Working Group 5 was tasked with developing recommendations for communications providers to enable them to mitigate the impact of high volume DDoS attacks launched […]
Kyoto Tycoon Secure Replication
Kyoto Tycoon is a distributed key-value store written by FAL Labs, and it is used extensively at CloudFlare. Like many popular key-value stores, Kyoto Tycoon uses timestamp-based replication to ensure eventual consistency and guarantee ordering. Kyoto Tycoon is an open source project, and in the spirit of the holidays, we’re contributing our internal changes back […]
Akamai Launches Japan Data Center to Combat DDoS Attacks
The voracity of Distributed Denial of Service attacks is causing content delivery network provider Akamai Technologies to expand its global network. The company has opened a data center in Japan to improve its DDoS prevention capabilities. The data center was launched in early October and is now fully operational. It is in a region where […]
London teen pleads guilty to Spamhaus DDoS
A 17 year-old Londoner has pleaded guilty to a series of denial-of-service attacks against internet exchanges and the Spamhaus anti-spam service last year. The teenager – who we cannot name for legal reasons – also admitted money laundering and possessing indecent images. faces a sentencing hearing on 9 January, a police statement confirmed:
Google PageSpeed Plugin
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Genius Guard Services Features
IP Blocking – Available in Hosting & Remote Protection services IP Blocking allow you to block IP address you want to reject its access to your website. You can block single IP or subnet using this system.
CloudFlare advanced DDoS protection
For business and enterprise customers Denial-of-service (DoS) attacks are on the rise and have evolved into complex and overwhelming security challenges for organizations large and small. Although DoS attacks are not a recent phenomenon, the methods and resources available to conduct and mask such attacks have dramatically evolved to include distributed (DDoS) and, more recently, […]