In late-1999, Apple was granted US Patent No 5,931,961 for Discovery of acceptable packet size using ICMP echo. A form of this mechanism was implemented in Mac OS 9 and was soon misused as a means of amplifying DDoS attacks . This patent is widely-cited by inventors at other Internet giants, but the mistake in its method […]
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Everything About TCP ACK Flood
We’re continuing along with our explanations of types of DDoS attacks today, with emphasis on the TCP ACK flood. Much like we discussed on Tuesday, this form of attack is a part of making a TCP connection. When a client establishes a TCP connection to a server, the connection goes through a three step process. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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. […]