2015 already a record year for DDoS: Akamai
The first quarter of 2015 saw a record number of direct denial of service (DDoS) attacks, according to network service provider, Akamai.
The first quarter of 2015 saw a record number of direct denial of service (DDoS) attacks, according to network service provider, Akamai.
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Network security firm, F5 Networks, is throwing its hat into the Cloud security ring.
F5 Networks' worldwide security evangelist, David Holmes, claims a growing amount of attacks and breaches originate in A/NZ.
Juniper Networks has added a new way for its anti-DDoS appliance to mitigate what's known as massive UDP-based amplification attacks that typically work by exploiting compromised servers of different kinds to both spoof and vastly increase the denial-of-service barrage.
The list of DDoS attacks in the month of June has made for grim reading. High-profile sites have been targeted by extortion demands, online games got disrupted and at least one company was put out of business as a direct result.
There has been an unprecedented spike in volumetric attacks driven by the proliferation of network time protocol (NTP) reflection and amplification attacks, according to distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) data released by Arbor Networks.
Application networking company, A10 Networks, has appointed Greg Barnes as its managing director for the Australia and New Zealand region.
The financial services industry is under threat from distributed denial of services (DDoS) attacks, and while none have been successful in downing a major marketplace, Prolexic president, Stuart Scholly, warns against complacency.
Cloud services company, Akamai, has confirmed it will purchase all outstanding equity of Prolexic for a net cash payment of about $370 million after expected purchase price adjustments, plus the assumption of outstanding unvested options to purchase stock.
Cheating gamers pay as little as $10 per month to launch denial of service attacks against their opponents as a tactical advantage using commercial providers that walk the line between being legitimate businesses that stress-test their customers' networks and purveyors of DDoS as a service, researchers at USENIX Security 2013 say.
A new class of enormous DDoS attacks emerged March 26 with a DNS reflection attack by email spammer CyberBunker against anti-spam service Spamhaus. The reported traffic peak of 300Gbps was double the previous record.
A Cisco-funded router startup has unveiled its first product, which the company says implements breakthrough silicon-to-photonics circuitry for scaling service provider networks and enabling them for software-defined networking (SDN).
Network security and management solutions provider, Arbor Networks, has furthered its existing relationship with networking company, Cisco Systems, by entering a new original equipment manufacturer (OEM) partnership.
Cisco has begun streamlining distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack defense by offering Arbor Networks technology on its carrier class routers.