DDoS Attacks Rise As Smart Devices Offer An Opportunity For Hackers

The size and volume of distributed denial of service -DDoS attacks have quadrupled in the past year as hackers take advantage of mobile devices. The proliferation of devices has provided cyber wrongdoers with new avenues of attack, Tech Week Europe reports. New research from cloud services provider Akamai has found that the total number of […]

Black Lotus protects your network against DDoS attacks

Network under attack? Black Lotus protects entire BGP networks through rapid provisioning of DDoS mitigation service on a global terabit-scale network. Networks Black Lotus makes it easy to deploy carrier grade DDoS protection to any BGP network, anywhere in the world. Service providers and enterprises connect to Black Lotus through GRE tunnels, physical cross connections, […]

Top DDoS Protected web hosting

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SSDP Reflector DDoS attacks on the rise

Simple Service Discovery Protocol (SSDP) – which is part of the Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) protocol standard – is being abused to carry out reflector  and amplification distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. SSDP enables networked devices to seamlessly connect with each other, such as computers, printers, internet gateways, Wi-Fi access points, mobile devices, cable modems […]

Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack

Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack is an attempt to make a machine or network resource unavailable to its intended users. Although the means to carry out, the motives for, and targets of a DoS attack vary, it generally consists of efforts to temporarily or indefinitely interrupt or suspend services of a host connected to the Internet. […]