DDoS attacks aren’t going away anytime soon. In fact, they’re getting bigger, according to network security company Arbor Networks. But there’s good news for potential attacks in the Internet of Things arena—some heat is off there. DDoS, or Distributed Denial-of-Service, attacks are where numerous compromised computers are used to target a single system. In simple terms, […]
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Canadian government sites were attacked by DDoS
‘Anonymous’ says it cyberattacked federal government to protest Bill C-51 Around 1:30 pm ET on Tuesday afternoon, Canadian government websites became inaccessible due to a denial-of-service attack, The Globe and Mail reported. The attack affected industry, employment, national resources, fisheries and oceans, justice, labor, foreign affaisr, environment and transportation related websites. A denial-of-service attack, sometimes […]
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 […]
The Best DDoS Protection web Hosting Review
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 […]
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 […]
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:
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, […]
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 […]