Arbor Networks released data on DDoS attack trends for the first half of 2013. The data shows that DDoS continues to be a global threat, with a clear increase in attack size, speed and complexity. …
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DDoS attack size growing dramatically
Growth in external hacking attempts, DDoS and malware attacks, and internal threats to data are the key security concerns for UK businesses. 64% of respondents to a Check Point survey said that ext…
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Security complexity and internal breaches are key concerns
Keeping their botnet's C&C centers online is crucial for bot herders, so that they can keep taking advantage of the computers they zombified. But given that cyber security firms and law enforcement ag…
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TOR-based botnets on the rise
With regard to the OpUSA hacktivist campaign, Solutionary discovered that attackers responsible for previous DDoS attacks on the financial sector leveraged a variety of techniques to execute the campa…
Prolexic Technologies announced that the average packet-per-second (pps) rate reached 47.4 Mpps and the average bandwidth reached 49.24 Gbps based on data collected in Q2 2013 from DDoS attacks launch…
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DDoS attacks are getting bigger, stronger and longer
Every once in a while we get to peek into the lion’s den, this time we’ll be checking out a fairly large instance of the Pony botnet controller, containing a large amount of stolen credentials and ot…
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Large Pony botnet controller discovered
SYN reflection attacks are one of the more sophisticated DDoS attack methods and typically require some skill to execute. However, they have recently grown in popularity as they’ve become available on…
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Can DDoS attackers turn mitigation devices against you?
While some botherders have opted for the arguably much safer P2P architecture in order to assure their botnets' resilience, others are still clinging to the standard distributed C&C option. Amon…
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Researchers reveal tricks for Cutwail's endurance
Ameen Pishdadi is the CTO at GigeNET. In this interview he discusses the various types of DDoS attacks, tells us who is at risk, tackles information gathering during attacks, lays out the lessons that…
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DDoS attacks: What they are and how to protect yourself
The mystery of the LinkedIn outage has been revealed: Network Solutions, its DNS provider, has been battered by a DDoS attack and while defending itself, misconfigured the DNS records of some of its c…
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LinkedIn outage was due to DNS records misconfiguration