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
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
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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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
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
According to a recent Arbor Networks report on infrastructure security, the number of DDoS attacks on enterprise DNS servers is on the rise but, despite this, many businesses aren’t taking the steps n…
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Doing more to protect your DNS from DDoS
Matthew Prince, CEO of content delivery network Cloudflare, has confirmed on Twitter on Monday that one of its customers was being targeted with a very big Network Time Protocol (NTP) reflection attac…
Prolexic Technologies issued a high alert DDoS attack threat advisory on the DNS Flooder v1.1 toolkit. The toolkit makes it faster and easier for malicious actors to launch crippling reflection attack…
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DDoS attack toolkit simplifies the launch of large reflection attacks
British spy agency GCHQ has used Denial of Service attacks against Anonymous, in order to disrupt their communications, their activities, and to lead members of the loosely tied collective away from p…
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GCHQ DoSed Anonymous' IRC server
Prolexic Technologies shared an analysis of nearly a dozen global DDoS attacks that indicates cyber attackers are using DDoS attacks in an attempt to influence market values and interfere with exchang…
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DDoS attacks used to influence stock prices