Six months ago we experienced a 30Gb/sec and 60M PPS attack that was targeting over 1000 IPs on our network. Although we eventually stopped the attack with the aid of our upstream providers, a number …
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A comparative view of cloud-based DDoS protection services
Cisco has patched a vulnerability that affects Cisco ASR 9000 Series Aggregation Services Routers and can be exploited by a remote, unauthenticated attacker to effectively mount a denial of service at…
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Cisco splats router bug that can lead to persistent DoS
The Simda botnet, believed to have infected more than 770,000 computers worldwide, has been targeted in a global operation. In a series of simultaneous actions around the world, on Thursday 9 April…
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Simda botnet taken down in global operation
Here's an overview of some of last week's most interesting news, reviews and articles: Cost of Advanced Evasion Techniques in recent data breaches A new report by McAfee examines the controversy…
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Week in review: AET costs, Windows XP deadline, routers expose ISPs to DNS-based DDoS attacks
Prolexic Technologies exposed weaknesses in the command and control (C&C) architecture of the Dirt Jumper DDoS Toolkit family that could neutralize would-be attackers. The Dirt Jumper family of toolki…
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Critical vulnerabilities in popular DDoS toolkit exposed