A Wisconsin man has been sentenced to two years federal probation and ordered to pay restitution for taking part in a 2011 DDoS attack mounted against the official website of Koch Industries by the An…
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Wisconsin man sentenced for DDoS attack against Koch Industries
Akamai and Prolexic have signed a definitive agreement for Akamai to acquire Prolexic, a provider of cloud-based security solutions for protecting data centers and enterprise IP applications from DDoS…
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Akamai to acquire Prolexic
Copenhagen-based Bitcoin Internet Payment Services (BIPS) has been hit with a DDoS attack and has had 1,295 BTC stolen (a little over $1M) mostly from the company’s own holdings, but some from their c…
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$1M lost in attack against Bitcoin Internet Payment Services
Prolexic announced the results of a survey of global e-commerce companies who were asked about DDoS protection and the effectiveness of different types of DDoS mitigation services. A cross-sectio…
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What e-commerce companies think about DDoS protection
Stefano Zanero is an Assistant Professor at Politechnico di Milano, where he focuses on systems security. Modern botnets rely on domain-generation algorithms (DGAs) to build resilient command-and-c…
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Tracking botnets using automatically generated domains
One of the classic debates in computer science concerns whether artificial intelligence or virtual reality is the more worthwhile pursuit. The advocates of artificial intelligence argue that computers…
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Visual investigations of botnet command and control behavior
IBM announced a new cloud solution that combines software analytics and cloud security services to fend off web-based DDoS attacks for organizations doing business on the web and in the cloud. The new…
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IBM unveils new cloud solution
DDoS perpetrators changed tactics in Q3 2013 to boost attack sizes and hide their identities, according to Prolexic. “This quarter, the major concern is that reflection attacks are accelerating d…
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Attackers use smaller botnets to launch high-bandwidth attacks
Arbor Networks have collaborated with Google Ideas to create a data visualization that maps global DDoS attacks. Google Ideas – a ‘think/do’ tank – explores how technology can enable people to co…
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Data visualization of global DDoS attacks
Does the Internet of Things scare you? It probably should. This DerbyCon video discusses why embedded device security is laughably bad, handling vendor notification, and setting up a dev environment t…
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The Internet of Things: Vulns, botnets and detection