A week-long DDoS attack that topped out at 45 Gbps and launched a flood of traffic at an Asian e-commerce company in early November was the biggest such incident so far this year, according to Prolexic, a company that defends websites against distributed denial-of-service attacks. The DDoS attack consisted of…
Firewalls fail to stem tide of DDoS attacks, survey finds
Companies still rely heavily on firewalls to defend themselves against denial-of-service attacks despite the fact that this class of device is often not up to the task, a new survey by F5 Networks has found. The survey of 1,000 medium and large organisations in 10 countries found that up to…
New Mac OS X malware with DDoS functionality spotted in the wild
Security researchers from multiple companies, have spotted a new Mac OS X malware. Dubbed ‘Tsunami’, the malware’s primary goal is to act as platform for executing distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. What’s particularly interesting about this backdoor, is the fact that malware coders have ported the malware bot from…
London Olympics CIO claims immunity from DDoS attacks
Cybercriminals will find it “very hard” to launch a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on the London 2012 Olympic Games website, according to the Olympic Games CIO. Gerry Pennell, CIO at the London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games, said: “The advantage is we are mostly about pushing data…
Oracle issues rare out-of-band update for Apache DDoS vulnerability
Oracle, the giant enterprise database company – and, of course, owner of the erstwhile Sun Microsystems – has just published an out-of-band security update. This is only the fifth time Oracle has issued an alert outside its routine quarterly patch cycle since introducing its own version of Patch Tuesday at…
Talking Points Memo Website Crashed By Apparent DDOS Attack (UPDATE)
The popular politics and news website Talking Points Memo crashed tonight after experiencing an apparent distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attack. View full post on politics hacker – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security
DDoS cloud protection service offered to worried companies
With DDoS attacks at epidemic level, Imperva has announced a new cloud service it claims offers a practical way to fend off the menace up to multi-gigabit level. Built on top of infrastructure from the company’s cloud division Incapsula using Imperva’s own SecureSphere Web Application Firewall, Cloud DDoS Protection is…
DDoS protection service offered to worried companies
With DDoS attacks at epidemic level, Imperva has announced a new cloud service it claims offers a practical way to fend off the menace up to multi-gigabit level. Built on top of infrastructure from the company’s cloud division Incapsula using Imperva’s own SecureSphere Web Application Firewall, Cloud DDoS Protection is…
DDoS protection service launched by Imperva
With DDoS attacks at epidemic level, Imperva has announced a new cloud service it claims offers a practical way to fend off the menace up to multi-gigabit level. Built on top of infrastructure from the company’s cloud division Incapsula using Imperva’s own SecureSphere Web Application Firewall, Cloud DDoS Protection is…
McAfee blames North Korea for DDoS attack
The cyber attacks that paralysed a handful of major South Korean websites earlier this year were almost certainly carried out by North Korea or parties allied with the country, computer security company McAfee said Tuesday in a report. The company’s analysis, carried out with the help of the South Korean…