Security News

Acorus Network protects enterprises and service providers from DDoS attacks
2018-10-10 00:30

Acorus Networks is raising $6 million from Elaia Partners, Partech and Kima Ventures. This funding round will contribute to Acorus Networks’ mission to protect customers whose business activity...

Microsoft Adds New Tools to Azure DDoS Protection
2018-09-26 13:24

Microsoft this week announced a new set of distributed denial of service (DDoS) mitigation tools for Azure, which the company says will provide customers with increased visibility and support when...

Bitcoin Core Software Patches a Critical DDoS Attack Vulnerability
2018-09-25 11:48

The Bitcoin Core development team has released an important update to patch a major DDoS vulnerability in its underlying software that could have been fatal to the Bitcoin Network, which is...

Advanced DDoS Detection and Defense
2018-09-24 21:48

Not only are we now seeing the most powerful DDoS attacks ever recorded, but they also are leveraging the ever-growing army of IoT devices. Gary Sockrider of NETSCOUT Arbor offers advice for...

Credential Stuffing Attacks Are Reaching DDoS Proportions
2018-09-24 10:12

Credential stuffing is a growing threat. It is not new, but for many companies it is treated as annoying background noise that can be absorbed by bandwidth, handled by access controls, and...

Defending Against Next-Generation DDoS Attacks
2018-09-21 15:18

Gary Sockrider of Netscout Arbor on Mitigation TechniquesDDoS attacks have increased significantly in scale via IoT botnet attacks. Gary Sockrider of Netscout Arbor discusses best practices for...

US Signal partners with Cloudflare to deliver DDoS protection service
2018-09-20 00:30

US Signal announced that it has partnered with Cloudflare to bring a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) protection service to market. The new service delivers DDoS mitigation for network,...

DDoS attack frequency grows 40%, low volume attacks dominate
2018-09-13 06:15

The frequency of DDoS attacks have once again risen, this time by 40% year on year, according to Corero Network Security. While frequency has increased, the duration of attacks decreased with 77%...

Whiskey business - DDoS attack leaves University of Edinburgh server Irn-Scru'd
2018-09-12 19:26

Hacker attack on Freshers week is a real Scotch dreg The University of Edinburgh has gone offline from what appears to be a massive DDoS attack on the school's network.…

U.K. Teen Involved in ProtonMail DDoS Attack Arrested
2018-09-07 11:36

ProtonMail has helped law enforcement identify one of the members of the Apophis Squad, a group that has made bomb threats and launched distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against many...