RSS bods stand up to cyber creeps News aggregator Feedly has been knocked offline by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack after refusing to pay criminals to stop the attack.…
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Feedly DDoSed by ransom-threat crims: ‘We refused to give in’
The “National Strategic Assessment of Serious and Organised Crime 2014”, published in May by the UK National Crime Agency, listed DDoS as a major concern for business critical systems for the first ti…
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Winning the war on web stealth attacks
There is a lot of media hype surrounding volumetric style DDoS attacks recently where the focus has been on large Gb/sec attacks, sometimes up to 400 Gb/sec. In reality, these are very rare and these …
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DDoS attacks: Criminals get stealthier
DNS flood washes over company servers Domain hosts Point DNS has been hammered with a high intensity DDoS attack on Friday, knocking servers out for hours.…
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Point DNS blitzed by mystery DDoS assault
How long does it take for one out of the box digital video recorder to be compromised with malware once the device has been connected to the Internet? The unfortunate answer is just one day. When, …
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Attackers rope DVRs in bitcoin-mining botnet in record time
While the network time protocol (NTP) DrDoS threats that became prevalent in early 2014 have been contained, new distributed reflected denial of service threats will lead to attacks in excess of 800 G…
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DrDoS attacks to reach 800 Gbps in 2015
In this interview, Jag Bains, CTO of DOSarrest, talks about various types of DDoS attacks and why a cloud-based solution is a good fit for most organizations. Despite being an old threat, DDoS atta…
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Blocking DDoS attacks with a cloud-based solution
Internet of Things security scares already need to take a chill pill It’s still silly season, it seems. Tell the world that a bunch of small business broadband routers have been compromised and recruited into botnets, and the world yawns.…
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SPAM supposedly spotted leaving the fridge
Project Shield guards activists, charities from web storms Google will shelter charities and activists from distributed denial-of-service attacks by wrapping their websites in its protection technologies.…
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If there’s somethin’ strange in your network ‘hood. Who y’gonna call? Google’s DDoS-busters
El Reg talks to anti-DDos bods – who UNMASK the target… Exclusive Web security firm Incapsula helped a Chinese Bitcoin trader to weather a ferocious denial-of-service attack last month when the volume of inbound traffic to the site peaked at 100Gbps.…
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How mystery DDoSers tried to take down Bitcoin exchange with 100Gbps crapflood