Security News

Crypto e-mail provider ProtonMail pays ransom to stop DDoS attack, attack continues (Help Net Security)
2015-11-06 08:41

Switzerland-based end-to-end encrypted e-mail provider ProtonMail has been on the receiving end of a heavy DDoS attack since Tuesday, November 3, and unavailable to its users for hours on end. Pro...

China is the top target for DDoS reflection attacks (Help Net Security)
2015-10-30 08:00

China bore the brunt of DDoS reflection attacks last month, with 61 percent of the top attack destinations observed hitting Chinese-based systems, according to Nexusguard. Of the 21,845 attack events ...

New DDoS attacks misuse NetBIOS name server, RPC portmap, and Sentinel licensing servers (Help Net Security)
2015-10-29 07:30

Akamai has observed three new reflection DDoS attacks in recent months: NetBIOS name server reflection, RPC portmap reflection, and Sentinel reflection. In a reflection DDoS attack, also called a D...