Security News

DDoS and web application attacks keep escalating (Help Net Security)
2016-09-15 12:30

Akamai Technologies released its Second Quarter, 2016 State of the Internet / Security Report, which highlights the cloud security landscape, specifically trends with DDoS and web application...

Business still ill-prepared to handle modern DDoS attacks (Help Net Security)
2016-09-14 13:00

In September 1996, New York City’s original ISP, Panix, was hit by a SYN flood denial of service attack that took them offline for several days. At a time when only 20 million Americans were...

DDoS downtime calculator based on real-world information (Help Net Security)
2016-09-13 18:00

Are you wondering how you can assess the risks associated with a DDoS attack? Incapsula’s free DDoS Downtime Calculator offers case-specific information adjusted to the realities of your...

Infected Android phones could flood America's 911 with DDoS attacks (The Register)
2016-09-13 07:19

Alleged Operators of DDoS Service Arrested in Israel (SecurityWeek)
2016-09-12 14:19

DDoS for Hire: Israel Arrests Two Suspects (InfoRiskToday)
2016-09-12 13:49

Linode fends off multiple DDOS attacks (The Register)
2016-09-11 23:34

DDOS for Profit (Schneier on Security)
2016-09-09 14:12

Brian Krebs reports that the Israeli DDOS service vDOS has earned $600K in the past two years. The information was obtained from a hack and data dump of the company's information....

DDoS Extortionist Copycats Continue To Hound Victims (Forbes)
2016-09-09 03:33

Mirai Linux Trojan corrals IoT devices into DDoS botnets (Help Net Security)
2016-09-07 13:30

Mirai, a newly discovered and still poorly detected piece of Linux malware, is being used to rope IoT devices into DDoS botnets. Researchers from MalwareMustDie have recently gotten their hands on...