Security News

Castaway hacker guilty of hospital DDoS attack
2018-08-02 18:51

He'll almost certainly get more than a three-hour tour for this A self-styled Anonymous hacker who attempted to flee the US in a sailboat has been convicted of two felonies for his role in a 2014...

U.S. Now Leads by Number of DDoS Botnet C&C Servers
2018-07-25 16:05

The United States was the top region by number of distributed denial of service (DDoS) botnet command and control (C&C) servers in Q2 2018, Kaspersky Lab reports.

Free training courses on DDoS protection, from introduction to mitigation
2018-07-18 12:57

The DDoS Protection Bootcamp is the first online portal to provide in-depth technical training in the field of DDoS protection. If you’re involved in IT security or network operations, you know...

DDoS Attacks Get Bigger, Smarter and More Diverse
2018-07-17 15:27

DDoS attacks is relentless. New techniques, new targets and a new class of attackers continue to reinvigorate one of the internet's oldest nemesis.

Life After Webstresser Disruption: No DDoS Holiday
2018-07-05 10:18

Arbor's Darren Anstee Talks Terabit Attacks, Stresser/Booter MayhemPolice recently arrested the suspected administrators and top users of the stresser/booter service Webstresser.org....

ThreatList: Top Summer DDoS Trends
2018-07-02 18:31

Distributed Denial of Service attacks maybe one of the oldest tools in a hacker’s toolbox, but that doesn’t mean they haven’t fallen out of fashion.

SSDP Diffraction Abused for DDoS Amplification
2018-06-28 13:00

The Simple Service Discovery Protocol (SSDP) can be abused to launch a new type of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks where devices respond with a non-standard port, NETSCOUT Arbor...

How DDoS Attacks Could Cripple Internal Networks
2018-06-28 09:33

Arbor's Alcoy Believes DDoS May No Longer Remain Just an External ThreatMirai-like, distributed denial of service attacks launched by IoT devices are an indication that DDoS may no longer be an...

Significant DDoS Attack on ProtonMail Blamed on Russia-Linked Group
2018-06-28 08:59

Encrypted email provider ProtonMail was hit by a significant distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that appears to have been carried out by a group linked to Russia. read more

Bot-driven credential abuse, DDoS attacks continue to rise
2018-06-26 16:30

Cybersecurity defenders face increasing threats from organisations in the form of bot-based credential abuse targeting the hospitality industry and advanced DDoS attacks, according to Akamai....