Security News

Dyn Confirms DDoS Attack Affecting Twitter, Github, Many Others (Threatpost)
2016-10-21 14:01

DNS providers Dyn suffered a DDoS attack this morning that affected many of its major customers including Twitter, Spotify, Github and others.

ABS apologises for AU$30m Census bungle, ISPs say IBM had standard DDoS protections disabled (ZDNet)
2016-10-19 23:51

Mirai Increasingly Used for DDoS Attacks After Source Leak (SecurityWeek)
2016-10-19 12:06

Mirai DDoS botnet powers up, infects Sierra Wireless gateways (ZDNet)
2016-10-17 11:06

Beware of all-powerful DDoS malware infecting cellular gateways, feds warn (ArsTechnica)
2016-10-14 20:08

A10 Networks extends its Thunder TPS line of DDoS mitigation appliances (ZDNet)
2016-10-13 16:23

IoT Botnet Uses HTTP Traffic to DDoS Targets (Threatpost)
2016-10-11 15:52

The IoT botnet behind the some of the largest publicly recorded DDoS attacks is flooding its targets with HTTP traffic in Layer 7 attacks.

Mirai IoT Botnet Not Only Contributor in Massive DDoS Attack: Akamai (SecurityWeek)
2016-10-06 16:37

53% of DDoS attacks result in additional compromise (Help Net Security)
2016-10-05 13:45

DDoS attack volume has remained consistently high and these attacks cause real damage to organizations, according to Neustar. The global response also affirms the prevalent use of DDoS attacks to...

Mirai “internet of things” malware from Krebs DDoS attack goes open source (Naked Security)
2016-10-05 13:08

Seems that the recent mega-DDoS against cybersecurity journalist Brian Krebs came from insecure routers, cameras, even printers.