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 […]
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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 […]
TCP SYN ACK Attack
A TCP SYN ACK Attack flood is an attack method that involves sending a target server spoofed SYN-ACK packet at a high rate. Because a server requires significant processing power to understand why it is receiving such packets out-of-order (not in accordance with the normal SYN, SYN-ACK, ACK TCP three-way handshake mechanism), it can become […]
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 […]
Hacking vs DDoS
Hacking has really taken on bad meaning over the past two decades. What began as software augmentation on a rapid development cycle has been popularized by movies like “Hackers” and “Swordfish” as underground and often sociopathic perpetration of evil. Interest has again been stirred with the holiday attacks against video game services and the release […]
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 […]
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:
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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, […]
What is DrDoS attacks?
DrDoS which stands for Distributed Reflection Denial of Service attacks and the means to block the attacks, is a reflection of distributed services and disabling the target system connected to a network or the network is even. DDoS attacks are a feature of stuff is that after a period of time lose their power and […]
Advanced Persistent DoS-APDoS
An APDoS is more likely to be perpetrated by “advanced threat actors” who are well resourced, exceptionally skilled and have access to substantial commercial grade computer resources and capacity. APDoS attacks represent a clear and emerging threat needing specialised Monitoring and Incident Response services and the defensive capabilities of specialised DDoS mitigation service providers. This […]
Genius Guard Web Hosting
Genius Guard brings you highly dependable DDoS protected Web Hosting solutions and gives you great peace of mind. With our advanced DDoS mitigation, you will be able to give your brand very secure online presence. Genius Guard is a name that you can trust when it comes to shared hosting. We have been in this industry […]
DDoS Deflate DDoS Protection
(D)DoS Deflate is a lightweight bash shell script designed to assist in the process of blocking a denial of service attack(Deflate DDoS Protection). It utilizes the command below to create a list of IP addresses connected to the server, along with their total number of connections. It is one of the simplest and easiest to […]
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 […]
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. […]