Hackers have started attacking the huge network of web cameras installed by Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to publically monitor voting in the country’s forthcoming presidential elections. As the first two cameras in the Siberian town of Novosibirsk in time for the first voting, Deputy Communications Minister Ilya Massukh admitted…
IPv6 networks targetted by DDoS attackers
Cybercriminals have started launching distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against networks that transmit data over IPv6 (Internet Protocol version 6), according to a report published recently by DDoS mitigation vendor Arbor Networks. Even though 2011 was the first year when IPv6 DDoS attacks were recorded, such incidents remain rare because they…
NASDAQ, BATS Hit by DDoS Attacks
Although the Web sites were made unavailable, the companies say trading wasn’t affected. View full post on eSecurityPlanet RSS Feed View full post on National Cyber Security
DDoS attacks motivated by politics not criminality, Arbor Networks finds
Large Internet organisations believe ideological and political motivations have become the single commonest motivation behind the DDoS attacks hitting their networks, a survey of major Internet firms by has found. As expected, Arbor Networks’ annual Infrastructure Security Report survey of 114 tier 1 Internet infrastructure firms, hosting companies and large…
Most DDoS motivated by politics not criminality, Arbor Networks finds
Large Internet organisations believe ideological and political motivations have become the single commonest motivation behind the DDoS attacks hitting their networks, a survey of major Internet firms by has found. As expected, Arbor Networks’ annual Infrastructure Security Report survey of 114 tier 1 Internet infrastructure firms, hosting companies and large…
Radware Security Report Debunks Prevailing Myths About Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attacks
MAHWAH, New Jersey, February 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ – Contrary to conventional thinking that large bandwidth cyber attacks wreak the most damage on enterprises, security experts at Radware (NASDAQ: RDWR – News) a leading provider of application delivery and application security solutions for virtual and cloud data centers, instead found…
Alcatel-Lucent partner Arbor Networks on DDoS mitigation
Alcatel-Lucent is now offering a router with technology from Arbor Networks that defends against distributed denial-of-service attacks DDoS, the two companies announced yesterday. The companies have partnered to put Arbor’s Threat Management System (TMS), which filters out attack traffic, into Alcatel-Lucent’s 7750 model router. It’s the first time that Arbor…
Australian E*Trade site felled by DDoS attack
The Australian ANZ E*Trade share trading website has admitted it suffered serious disruption for over the Christmas period after being hit by a DDoS attack. The attack appears to have started affecting mostly overseas customers around 19 December, leaving some unable to access the platform for up to two weeks….
WiFi, DDoS Vulnerabilities, Cyber-Attacks Lead Week’s Security News
Software security flaws dominated news headlines this week, as security experts discussed the implications of a vulnerability that was found in several Web application frameworks. View full post on germany cyber attack – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security
Demystifying the Common Methods of DDoS / DoS Attacks
“Tango Down!!!” DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) or DoS (denial-of-service) attack, the act of putting a computer resource, server or network down or unavailable. In fact the CIA Website was once took down by a massive DDoS Attack. These kind of attacks are considered lame but it actually gives your website a…