Security News

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...

IoT Botnet Targets Olympics in 540Gbps DDoS Attacks (SecurityWeek)
2016-09-01 13:25