Security News

Dyn DDoS Could Have Topped 1 Tbps (Threatpost)
2016-10-27 18:48

Analysis by DNS provider Dyn hints that more than 1 terabyte per second of traffic may have been used in last week's massive DDoS attack that impacted Internet service on the East Coast.

Lawmakers Asking What ISPs Can Do About DDoS Attacks (Threatpost)
2016-10-26 15:00

Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia wrote a letter to the heads of the FCC, FTC and DHS asking whether ISPs have the power to keep insecure connected devices off the public Internet.

Terabit-scale DDoS events are on the horizon (Help Net Security)
2016-10-26 12:30

Corero Network Security has disclosed a new DDoS attack vector observed for the first time against its customers last week. The technique is an amplification attack, which utilizes the Lightweight...