Security News

Subverting protection into DDoS attacks (Help Net Security)
2016-08-17 12:45

On average, DNSSEC reflection can transform an 80-byte query into a 2,313-byte response, an amplification factor of nearly 30 times, which can easily cause a network service outage during a DDoS...

Juniper Hotfixes Shut Down IPv6 DDoS Vulnerability (Threatpost)
2016-08-10 18:09

Juniper Networks announced patches for a serious vulnerability in the handling of IPv6 packets that is says could leave its Junos OS and JUNOSe routers open to a distributed denial of service...

DDoS attacks increase 83%, Russia top victim (Help Net Security)
2016-07-27 12:45

DDoS attacks increased 83 percent to more than 182,900 attacks in the second quarter of the year, according to Nexusguard. The newest report shows that Russia has become the No. 1 victim country....