“According to industry estimates, botnets have caused over $9 billion in losses to US victims and over $110 billion in losses globally. Approximately 500 million computers are infected globally each y…
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Analysis of 244,703 DDoS incidents
NSFOCUS released its DDoS Threat Report 2013, which details attack trends and methodologies over the past year. The report includes statistical analysis and key observations based on 244,703 DDoS inci…
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Analysis of 244,703 DDoS incidents
Basecamp gets DDoSed and blackmailed
Basecamp, formerly known as 37signals, has managed to largely mitigate a DDoS attack that started today (March 24) at 8:46 central time and which made its services unavailable for users for a few hour…
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Basecamp gets DDoSed and blackmailed
Gang wielding ColdFusion exploits expands botnet of hacked e-commerce sites
A German website of French automaker Citroën is the latest of the wide array of higher-profile webshop sites that have been compromised by a hacker gang leveraging Adobe ColdFusion vulnerabilities. …
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Gang wielding ColdFusion exploits expands botnet of hacked e-commerce sites
Week in review: Target breach reaction fail, WordPress sites exploited in DDoS attack
Here's an overview of some of last week's most interesting news, podcasts, videos, interviews and articles: Latvia establishes a Cyber Defence Unit The newly established unit is part of the volu…
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Week in review: Target breach reaction fail, WordPress sites exploited in DDoS attack
High-bandwidth NTP amplification DDoS attacks escalate
Prolexic issued a high alert threat advisory on NTP amplification DDoS attacks. This attack method has surged in popularity this year, fueled by the availability of new DDoS toolkits that make it simp…
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High-bandwidth NTP amplification DDoS attacks escalate
Over 162,000 WordPress sites exploited in DDoS attack
DNS and NTP servers are not the only publicly accessible resources that can be misused to amplify DDoS attacks. Sucuri CTO Daniel Cid revealed details of a recent incident in which they received a …
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Over 162,000 WordPress sites exploited in DDoS attack
Cyber crooks will go after medical records next
As security firms and law enforcement agencies continue to cooperate and successfully take down botnets, cyber crooks will be forced to look for new and more lucrative targets, and especially ones tha…
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Cyber crooks will go after medical records next
Next generation anti-DDoS appliances from Huawei
Huawei announced the launch of its next-generation anti-DDoS solution at RSA Conference 2014. Huawei's AntiDDoS8000 Series offers industry leading security capabilities, including 1Tbps performanc…
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Next generation anti-DDoS appliances from Huawei
Namecheap's DNS server hit with a "new type" of DDoS
Popular domain registrar and web hosting service Namecheap has been having trouble with an unexpected DDoS attack targeting 300 or so domains on two of their their DNS nameservers. “The sheer siz…
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Namecheap's DNS server hit with a "new type" of DDoS