Recently the New York Times announced that CloudFlare has partnered with Internet search giant Baidu in China, Google’s eerily similar competitor, to deliver Yunjiasu, a CloudFlare-like service in China. The service is aimed at speeding up Internet connectivity and providing some level security services for its customers, including limited DDoS mitigation. It will likely operate similar to CloudFlare itself, with […]
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Webair CTO Presents Multi-Layer DDoS Mitigation Strategies
In a recent presentation to LinuxCon attendees, Webair CTO Sagi Brody and Senior Infrastructure Engineer Logan Best discussed the current dynamics of DDoS attacks and mitigation methods, and we’re pleased to have been included and provide some statistics for them. Beginning from the target server all the way to 3rd party protection, Brody describes ways […]
Staminus Chooses Advania As Its Official DDoS Partner in Iceland
Staminus has teamed up with the multi-service IT company Advania to defend their Iceland-based clients. With 70 years of experience in the field of technology services, Advania is the largest business of its kind in Iceland, and was the ideal partner to help establish a quality defense against Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks in the country. […]
Stopping DDoS at an Internet Exchange
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. […]
A DDoS Attack Explained: HTTP Flood
HTTP floods are one of the most devastating types of DDoS attacks currently available to an attacker. It is an attack at the application layer (Layer 7 of the OSI model), meant to exhaust a system’s application resources. It is very easy to execute, doesn’t require a massive botnet or any sort of tricks to […]
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 […]
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 […]