A network suffering from a DDoS attack can trigger a blackhole route to the attacked IP and save their network. When other networks see this null route, they no longer know where to send the data for that particular IP address. All of that data is simply dropped (into a black hole!) by their routers. […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]