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Convicted Felon John Gammell Pleaded Guilty to Disruptions, Possessing FirearmsJohn Gammell of New Mexico has been sentenced to serve 15 years in prison for launching DDoS attacks against prior...
A New Mexico man has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for launching distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on dozens of organizations and for firearms-related charges. read more
Jigsaw, an incubator run by Google parent Alphabet, this week announced the availability of Project Shield – which offers free distributed denial of service (DDoS) protections – for the U.S....
Universal Plug and Play networking protocols can be exploited to bypass DDoS mitigations.
Attackers can use the Universal Plug and Play protocol to hide packet sources during a DDoS attack.
Recent distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks showed evidence of a new method being used to bypass existing defenses by obfuscating source port data, Imperva says. read more
Mike Boose of Arbor Networks on Best Mitigation PracticesDDoS attacks are morphing from being political statements to a diversion while other forms of attacks are occurring, says Arbor Network's...
In 2018, Q1 saw a DDoS attack that lasted 12 days, the longest since 2015, according to Kaspersky Lab.
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Authorities in the U.S., U.K. and the Netherlands on Tuesday took down popular online attack-for-hire service WebStresser.org and arrested its alleged administrators. Investigators say that prior...