Applications are becoming more accessible on the web across all industries including gaming, e-commerce, software, and media. This is great for reaching new customers around the globe, but along with …
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Cloud security: Integrated global CDN with DDoS mitigation and WAF
More than half of IT security professionals (52 percent) said loss of customer trust and confidence were the most damaging consequences of DDoS attacks for their businesses, according to a survey cond…
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The most damaging ramifications of DDoS attacks
DDoS attacks are beginning to resemble advanced persistent threats, evidenced by long durations, repetition and changing attack vectors aimed at evading simple, signature-based defense systems, accord…
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DDoS attacks now resemble APTs
Because you can’t be telepresent when the bad guys are DOSing you Cisco TelePresence kit and software need patching after the company turned up vulnerabilities that open them up to remote command injection and denial of service attacks.…
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Time to patch your Cisco TelePresence systems
Home-baked encryption followed the wrong recipe Yet another proprietary implementation of a popular protocol has turned up unexpected vulnerabilities, with SAP’s data compression software open to remote code execution and denial-of-service exploits.…
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SAP crypto offers customers choice of remote code execution or denial of service
Apple patches OOB boob to stop API noobs being duped Kenton Varda has found a ‘weird’ kernel bug used in Apple gear that could result in trivial denial of service by remote attackers.…
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iOS, OS X apps sent into infinite dizzy DoS by this one weird kernel bug
Neustar surveyed IT professionals from across EMEA to understand the impact of DDoS attacks. 40 percent of companies estimate hourly losses of over £100,000 at peak times during a DDoS outage,…
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Half of companies under DDoS attack have critical data stolen
Site flooded with 2.6 billion requests an hour Chinese activist site Greatfire.org which masks censored traffic into the country is under a sustained distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that is racking up $30,000 a day in server costs.…
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Massive DDoS racks up $30,000-a-day Amazon bill for China activists
Cops analysing command and control server … in Hampshire Euro cybercrime cops have taken down the RAMNIT botnet, which has infected 3.2 million computers worldwide, including 33,000 in the UK.…
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Europol shuts down darn RAMNIT botnet
Security scanner spawns hordes of attackers to probe you in all sorts of ways … Google has unleashed its own application security scanner, potentially rescuing admins from ‘fiddly’ existing offerings.…
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Google unleashes tame botnet to hunt XSS in cloudy code